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Camcopter S-100 completes Italian Navy flight

Issue No. 10 | May 16-31, 2012

Schiebel’s Camcopter S-100 has taken a further step in consolidating its strong maritime position by being the first UAS (unmanned air system) to ever fly from an Italian Navy ship. The S-100 was flown from the ITSBersagliere, a Soldati class frigate and successfully carried out a number of missions for observers from the Italian Navy.

From the Italian Navy Base of La Spezia a number of scenarios were flown and the Camcopter S-100 performed flawlessly in sea states three to four and with windspeeds of up to 25 kts. The payload of choice was a Wescam MX-10 camera, transmitting high definition images in real-time to the control station during the 4,5 hours of flight time.