After several months of R&D, we are proud to present Sentinelle, our new tethered aerial drone system.
This system – comprising a quadcopter, a landing platform and an automated winch – enables extended, secure aerial deployment from a moving vessel.
Designed to withstand the most hostile marine environments (sea spray, strong winds, humidity), Sentinelle pushes back the limits of onboard UAV use.
Its ability to take off and land dynamically on a moving vessel was made possible by the development of automatic piloting software coupled with innovative automated winch technology.
These are the aspects that set Sentinelle apart from other solutions.
The first concrete application: the French Navy has equipped itself with the first example of this solution, unprecedented in France.
The drone can carry various types of payload:
Long-range stabilized cameras with infrared, target tracking, communication relays to increase range and data rates between units in a naval air group.
With its unlimited autonomy, insensitivity to jamming and discretion, Sentinelle is the future of onboard surveillance, in the service of maritime sovereignty.
Already available in kit form for the naval version, a version for land operations is currently under development.
