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At UMEX 2024, we, Army Reconnaissance Group, are covering the only defense exhibition
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focused on the unmanned systems in the Middle East. Today, for the day one, I will introduce you some companies, Gargaris from Slovenia, but
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also Skibel from Austria, and the Chinese company Flightwin Innovation Technology. �
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Thank you, first of all, for allowing us to present our systems
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What I would say, they are the future systems of simulation. What we present here at UMEX is the LED wall with limitless capabilities to train the soldiers
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Normally, what we do is train from the conscripts to the special forces
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and until today, all the trainings were done via projection and laser-based training
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It means you have a small little red dot, and the information you get is hit or no hit
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So, what we did in the five years development is the system, it is fully patented
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that gives you all information why you hit and why you didn't hit
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Even more, in this era of youngsters who are talking and speaking through these new social medias
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there is more and more requests that we put these young soldiers to the environment
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which gives them already indoor simulation, which gives them very good approach
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or very similar feeling that they would get it on the real terrain
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So, we are having the sound floor with the sound effects and with the shock effects
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that practically nobody has. They can freely move in this terrain, and what is the most important, they can communicate
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The point is that today all other simulators are marksmanship simulators, and you are shooting on the lines
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So, here you move, you change the positions, and you know, it was in the past..
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Not in the past, today youngsters are rather sending WhatsApp message to the other guy
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than to say him, well, you didn't manage or you... you know, the world
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So, what we did is we approached to needs of today and the future
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to put the young people in the arena that is fully immersive
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So, this is our number one product that we are presenting here
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and beside it, of course, we are having the vehicle simulators, remote control weapon simulators
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the remote control weapon simulators from all systems that you see here, there
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from Raphael, from Elbit, from AutoCar, and we put this on the different vehicles that we produce also in-house
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and everything what we do is based on Guardiari's simulation graphical engine
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So, we don't buy anything. We are developing the engine for 20 years, and we have the top-notch system
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which is today very important, because the customers, they would like to have some specifics
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they would like to have some changes, and you cannot do this with the big ones
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What we do, if you want to have, I will explain you, just to have Excel sheet
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you need to buy Office. What we offer is Excel sheet, really determined based on your needs
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Good morning, my name is Neil Hunter. I am the head of sales for Schiebel
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Schiebel is a privately owned Austrian company based out of Vienna, and as you can see, looking over my shoulder, we build what we call the S100
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the camcorder S100, which is a vertical take-off and landing unmanned system
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The company has been in operation for 70 years now. We are still owned by our owner, Hans Schiebel, who is still our chairman
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and very much involved in the design, the technology of the product
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And to talk a little bit about the camcorder, the S100 itself, as I said, it's a vertical take-off
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We are probably literally the only company in the world still that is in production
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with a mature product, delivering it around the world to lots of different customers
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We've built over 500 of the aircraft and we've sold to over 35 countries around the world
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and that includes land and maritime, so sea-based, and that's both the military and the commercial market
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The helicopter itself, it's a maximum take-off weight of 200 kilograms. About 50% of that is its basic weight, and then the other sort of 100 kilograms is material
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So in fuel terms, its standard endurance is between 5 and 6 hours
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but we can add an external tank that will take it up to 10 hours
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And then on the sensor, the capability side, the most important aspect
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we carry up to 50 kilograms worth of payload, and that can be a mixture of payloads at the same time
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So we traditionally put what we can, we can carry a payload of up to 100 kilograms
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and that can be a mixture of payloads at the same time. So we traditionally put what we call an EOIR, an electrical optical infrared camera
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in the belly of the aircraft, and that has ranges out to sort of 30, 40 kilometers
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because one of the beauties about the helicopter is that we can carry a 10-inch ball, as we call it, camera
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which means we can get a large camera, which means we can get very good resolution
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And then in parallel to that, we also have integrated various different radars
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so we've integrated synthetic aperture radars that we've either put on the side payload to the aircraft
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or we've actually put them in the main belly of the aircraft itself. And then we've also integrated other sensors, such as lidars, hyperspectrals
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We've also recently been involved with trying to go to the, shall we call, to the next level
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so we've got ourselves involved in anti-submarine warfare. So in September last year, we flew at a very large NATO conference down in Portugal called RETMOS
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where all the NATO nations gather and they look at new technologies coming along
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and during that exercise, we were able to show them our ability to drop sonar buoys as part of anti-submarine warfare
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We showed that we could do what we call secondary roles, in other words, load lifting
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underwater autonomous vehicles as an underslung load, and then release them and drop them into the water as well
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We're able, with our lidars, to actually fly out and detect mines below the surface
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So we very much see ourselves as a company that's always looking to go to the next stage in technical development
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So in other words, we've never stood still. We've never just been a, what we call an ISR, intelligent surveillance reconnaissance capability
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We're always looking to get involved in all the other areas that are coming along at the moment
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So I think that's probably a brief summary of us. Where's our sort of USP, unique selling point
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Probably in the maritime domain because obviously as a helicopter, we've proven that we can land on single-spot flight decks, as they're called
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on ships ranging from fisheries protection all the way up to sort of aircraft carriers
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So with the French, for example, we actually operate off their helicopter carriers
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Last year, we won a contract with the British Royal Navy where we're operating off a Type 23 frigate
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So we're very active out there in the market. I know your guys are from Belgium
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We've been looking at what the Belgians and the Dutch have been doing in the NMCM program
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and we're keeping an eye on that to see if maybe opportunities might develop
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because we believe we have the right product for also at that level of mine detection
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mine warfare in European NATOs as well. And then I think to finish, why we're here in UMEX
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We actually started our journey here in the UAE back in 2005, I think
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So Abu Dhabi was our first-ever contract. So they have a lot of our systems, which they use primarily in the military domain
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so land and maritime. And so we've always maintained very good relationships with this part of the world
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and actually we see lots of opportunities here to grow in the Middle East
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So we do have other customers in the region. To be honest, it's sort of, shall we say, the center of the world
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so it's a place where lots of people come and gather. So it's a very important exhibition for us, showcasing our product
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And then maybe just to finish, we're very much showing what we call the S-100 here today
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but we're actually now building the S-300, which will be three times bigger
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than the aircraft you can see over my shoulder. So it'll have a maximum endurance of 24 hours
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if you're carrying up to about 50, 80 kilograms of payload. But actually we can change that around and put up to 250 kilograms of payload
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bring our endurance probably down to about six hours. And we've just won our first contract for the S-300 in Asia
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Leave it like that for now. So we're very much starting our journey with the S-300
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And one of the prime advantages of being an aircraft that's 600 kilograms
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is we can then seriously get involved in the likes of anti-submarine warfare
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whether that's communications relay, whether that's carrying lots of sonobuoys, and then also carrying what I would call a true, proper, large maritime radar as well
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So, yes, been building S-100 15 years, been very successful. The market looks good for us in the future
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but we're now going to the next step with the S-300. So exciting times
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My name is Chen. I'm from China Flight Wing. We are from Beijing, and we established in 2008
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We produce heavy-lift unmanned helicopters. This is our core business. First of all, this is also our main product
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This one, the takeoff weight is one ton, and the net payload weight is 300 kg
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And the endurance time is five hours. The range is 600 to 700 kilometers
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So this is also, I think, in the same sector of the industry
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It's also a very big one. The cruise speed is 120 to 140 kilometers per hour
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and the maximum speed is 160. What I'm seeing is because the engine is modified by ourselves
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and also for the rotor and for the blade, and even for the flight control system, are made by ourselves
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and the power is very big, I mean, for the engine. That's why it can carry more than 300 kg payload
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And also what I'm seeing is almost 85% of the components are made by ourselves
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So the cost is very low. So that's why we think it's also very much competitive
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It's in service for almost two years. It's very mature, I mean, for the commercial service
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It's especially for the emergency rescue and for the logistics, and also for the fire extinguishing
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This is our flagship product. Now I think it's the biggest, I mean, unmanned helicopter in the sector
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The takeoff weight is 2.5 tons, and the net payload weight is one ton
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And also the cruise speed is 120, and the range is 600
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And the service ceiling is 6,500 meters. It can carry one ton of goods and also six wounded people for medical care
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Because we just service in China, we hope to go abroad, I mean
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to just do business outside, I mean, overseas. We also hope to find a local partner, even UAE, to set up a joint venture or a factory
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We can also assemble the helicopters locally. Yes, we hope to do that
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
