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FA R N B O R O U G H 2 0 0 8 BAE Promotes ‘Fury’ Variant of HERTI UAS includes lightning protection BAE System’s HERTI Unmanned Autonoand a full night flying capabilmous System (UAS) is positioned to assume ity, reflecting the aircraft’s expanding the range of applications, from such ability to provide persistent commercial missions as pipeline, plant and surveillance in all weathers. infrastructure surveillance to maritime, coast“HERTI is an affordable UAS, line, border and military surveillance, built to meet operational needs and even armed reconnaissance and close but with the flexibility to meet air support. emerging and future requireThe armed version, dubbed “Fury,” is the ments” says Andy Wilson, latest version of the HERTI, making its pubthe business development dilic debut on static display here. Sharing BAE’s Fury can rector for utility UAVs at a similar airframe and some vehicle system safely overfly BAE Systems. components with the populated areas. The production-standard HERTI reconnaissance platform utilizes a more robust and surveillance UAS, logistics footprint and mission system comprising a more flexible multiFury features the latest payload turret manufactured by Polytech AB low operator workload. generation mission sysPreparing the HERTI from Sweden. The mount enables easy integratems avionics, a newly to pursue the new mis- tion of alternative sensors to meet the operational developed stores mansions, BAE Systems is requirements of individual customers. The baseagement system, and a modifying the experi- line payload comprises an electro-optic sensor proven weapon guidmental system into a suite for day and night operations. ance system. BAE carried out an extensive flight test prorobust, production stanThe system has been Fury features a new stores management system. dard aircraft capable of gram using three development aircraft to verify developed and tested in partnership with Thales UK’s missile busi- autonomous, reliable and safe operation. The the new mission system. This program included ness in Belfast. It is armed with the new new airframe is being manufactured by endurance flying, night flights, and a fully Thales Lightweight Multi-role Missile (LMM) Slingsby Aviation in the UK, based on an orig- autonomous night landing. Comprehensive system, selected for Fury due to its suitability inal design by J&AS Aero Design of Poland. fatigue testing of a HERTI airframe is also for lightweight maneuverable platforms, A key element of the new platform is the being performed. The system performed a and for its ability to fire on the move while BAE Systems-developed flight control system number of demonstration flights at fully operdelivering significant precision effects. and avionics suite, designed for improved oper- ational RAF airbases using a new containerized BAE Systems’ project director Chris Clarkson ational capability and a high level of system ground control station and remote viewing terdescribes the new Fury as an affordable, reli- redundancy, as required for operation over minal, and proved its ability to provide real time access to intelligence data via satellite. able and highly accurate weapon system capable populated areas. The production-standard system also of operation from forward locations, with small —Tamir Eshel

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