Wisconsin-based Morgan Aircraft LLC and UK-based Mineseeker Operations announced that the two companies have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly develop an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform that can, in addition to serving many other needs, be customised to meet the mission requirements of Mineseeker operations.

Morgan Aircraft is developing a unique vertical lift UAV which combines the operational advantages of a helicopter with the range and speed of a fixed-wing aircraft, but with none of the tilting parts which have plagued other such programmes in the past.

Mineseeker Operations’ primary focus is the safe and costeffective mapping and clearing of mines and other unexploded ordnance from former and current war zones. To facilitate this, Mineseeker has developed a unique airborne visual overlay technology which can detect and map surface and subsurface objects using multi-spectral images and radar (MIR).