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Why choose Shearwater?
Superior mission success, unmatched endurance, and advanced autonomy
Use Shearwater’s cutting-edge autonomous military drone software to enhance your military operations. As a company certified to handle controlled goods, Shearwater Aerospace ensures that all our systems meet the highest security standards, offering defense contractors the peace of mind needed when dealing with sensitive operations
Shearwater's Smart Flight™ platform leverages the power of artificial intelligence to optimize every facet of your drone's operation. With features like real-time flight path optimization and extended flight endurance, Smart Flight™ is designed to revolutionize the way military drones operate. This groundbreaking solution not only extends your operational range but also redefines the parameters for drone autonomy and cooperative mission execution, ensuring both efficiency and compliance in sensitive military missions.
Key features that set Smart Flight™ apart
Discover the unmatched capabilities of Shearwater's cutting-edge military drone software. Smart Flight™ is designed to optimize and enhance the efficiency, safety, and precision of every mission, making it a powerful tool in many kinds of military operations. Here's what sets our drone AI software apart from the competition:
1. Automated route planning
Drone flight paths are optimized by Smart Flight™ thanks to the integration of sophisticated automated route planning, which takes into account current environmental data including topography, weather, and keep out zones. By guaranteeing that drones follow the most effective and secure paths, this feature enables you to arrive at your destination 30% faster and consume 25% less energy, to extend your overall mission time. Drones can adjust dynamically while in flight thanks to this mechanism, avoiding threats and ensuring the completion of mission goals.
The efficacy of multimodal sensing technology is further enhanced by this planning capability, which allows the drones to cover greater areas more effectively and collect vast amounts of accurate data. This capability guarantees that missions are completed with the least amount of manual input, which lowers operator workload and increases the dependability and scope of surveillance and reconnaissance activities for defense contractors.
2. Autonomous soaring
Autonomous soaring, which enables drones to prolong their flight length by exploiting natural wind patterns and atmospheric energy, is one of Smart Flight™'s most notable characteristics. Drones can stay in the air much longer because of this special capability, which lessens logistical issues like frequent battery replacements and refueling. Multimodal sensor systems can function continuously over a larger region by enabling extended flight times, improving the precision and thoroughness of surveillance operations. Even in demanding and dynamic circumstances, the system's real-time adaptation guarantees ongoing data collection and analysis.
For defense contractors, this feature provides a sustainable, cost-effective solution for long-range missions, improving overall mission endurance and operational efficiency.
3. Collaborative multi-drone tasking
Our proprietary AI software revolutionizes drone coordination by enabling multiple drones to be managed and tasked collaboratively through a single operator interface. This functionality is especially helpful for sophisticated military missions when numerous drones need to work together, like intelligence gathering, target acquisition, and reconnaissance. Smart Flight™ improves the efficacy and efficiency of interconnected, interoperable sensor systems by coordinating networked drones, guaranteeing thorough data collection over large, complicated environments.
The drones are able to cooperate effectively, with each drone carrying out its designated role and adding to the mission's success as a whole. Furthermore, our proprietary AI for military drones can adapt in real time to changing conditions and mission needs, which increases overall operating efficiency. This streamlined multi-drone management system means increased mission coverage, more detailed monitoring, and greater success in completing mission-critical tasks.
Each of these features, from automated route planning to autonomous soaring and collaborative tasking, showcases the powerful capabilities of Smart Flight™ in improving drone endurance, adaptability, and coordination, making it a critical tool for enhancing military operations.
Applications of Smart Flight™
Strengthen every aspect of your military operations
Explore how Shearwater’s military drone software enhances military operations across a wide range of mission-critical scenarios. From surveillance to tactical resupply, Smart Flight™ is engineered to optimize performance in even the most demanding environments, ensuring success in the field.
1. Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR)
Smart Flight™ greatly extends drone endurance and data-gathering capabilities, revolutionizing ISTAR operations. Drones using our software are able to remain in the air for prolonged periods of time during essential missions, which makes it possible for them to cover large regions and gather more comprehensive intelligence. By ensuring that command centers receive real-time intelligence, this ongoing surveillance improves situational awareness and facilitates the making of more informed judgments. Smart Flight™ makes sure that your drones stay in the air longer, giving consistent, dependable support in ever-changing environments—whether you're following enemy movements, keeping an eye on valuable targets, or collecting vital reconnaissance data. Our software keeps your drones focused on the objective by adapting to dynamic conditions like shifting weather or evolving threats. This ensures that you always have access to high-value intelligence.
2. Tactical resupply in challenging terrain
Maintaining supply lines to forward operating bases (FOBs) or isolated units is a tough task in many military operations, especially when dealing with challenging terrain or hostile conditions. By evaluating topography, weather, and possible threats, Smart Flight™ optimizes tactical resupply missions to design the safest and most effective delivery routes. Drones with our proprietary software capabilities may fly to hard-to-reach areas and drop supplies directly to troops, even in dangerous combat zones. Examples of these supplies include food, medical kits, and ammunition. This feature is especially helpful in areas with mountains, thick forests, or deserts where conventional ground vehicles have difficulty.
Smart FlightTM reduces logistical strains and lowers personnel risks while assisting in maintaining the operational preparedness of your forces by guaranteeing supplies are delivered on schedule and in the appropriate quantities.
3. Electronic warfare
Military drones can now more effectively detect, disrupt, and destroy adversary communications and electronic systems thanks to Smart Flight™, which elevates electronic warfare operations. Longer flight times allow drones to provide continuous support for missions involving jamming or interference. Drones can remain operational in contested areas by constantly adjusting their flight paths to evade detection, countermeasures, or hostile engagement, thanks to the software's real-time adaptability.
Smart Flight™ increases the effectiveness of electronic countermeasures by allowing your electronic warfare drones to fly longer. This means that there are more opportunities to neutralize enemy radar systems, disrupt communications, and degrade enemy capabilities without having to redeploy frequently. As a result, military forces are able to consistently interrupt adversary operations and maintain the upper hand in electronic warfare scenarios.
4. Aerial Decoy Drones: Disrupting Enemy Defenses
Our AI-powered military drones, such as Smart Flight™, are designed to operate as highly effective and affordable aerial target simulators, playing a key role in offensive strategies. These drones can mimic the flight patterns and behaviors of enemy aircraft, missiles, or other airborne threats with our proprietary artificial intelligence for military drones, deceiving adversaries into believing they face a real threat. By deploying these drones deep into enemy territory, our software enables them to trigger costly countermeasures from the opposition, forcing them to waste valuable resources to neutralize low-cost drones.
At scale, this tactic can significantly strain the enemy's financial resources, making it a powerful tool in modern warfare. The flexibility of our software allows for quick adjustments to flight patterns and behaviors, ensuring that the drones can continuously adapt to evolving mission needs, keeping adversaries off balance and contributing to a more effective, resource-efficient offensive strategy.
Each of these use cases demonstrates how Smart Flight™, which offers improved performance, accuracy, and adaptability across a wide range of mission-critical tasks, is a revolutionary technological advancement for military operations.
Common concerns addressed: Smart Flight™ delivers reliable, secure and adaptable solutions
Your questions answered. Find out how well Smart Flight™ works with the systems you already have.
Can Smart Flight™ operate without an internet connection?
Absolutely. For missions where connectivity is scarce or unpredictable, Smart Flight™'s offline functionality is essential. Even in the absence of a live data feed, our system is able to store and utilize local meteorological data to maintain drone operations.
What level of site-specific information is required for Smart Flight™ to work?
Our AI for military drones is made to function with as little prior location knowledge as possible. It can adjust on the fly (literally) to changing conditions by leveraging real-time sensor data and environmental feedback, ensuring that your mission proceeds as intended.
Are current weather systems compatible with Smart FlightTM?
Yes. The weather data sources you currently have set up can be easily integrated with our software. To guarantee safe and efficient flight paths, Smart Flight™ can combine information from third-party sources or proprietary weather systems.
Can Smart Flight pull in additional data, such as locations of signal jammers?
Yes, Smart Flight is designed to ingest data from any source. This new data simply imposes additional constraints on the optimized flight paths generated by our software.
Ready to experience the future with our AI for military drone technology?
Our autonomous military drone software provides a revolutionary advance in drone capabilities for military use. Our software gives defense personnel the unrivaled autonomy, endurance, and intelligence to accomplish missions successfully under the most difficult conditions!