Terra Lab (President of Kasugai City, Aichi Prefecture, President Takahide Matsuura) has completed a large flight robot (drone) with a wing width of 8 meters.In the latter half of 2022, we will demonstrate the flight on the actual machine.The cruising time is 10 hours and the flight distance is scheduled for 1000 kilometers.With a large and long -lasting drone development, we aim for government agencies such as border security and forest surveying.
The large drone flew with a gasoline engine and a propeller, and has a winglet, a board to increase stability on the wing tip.Most of the aircraft was used for fiber composite material to reduce weight.
Equipped with high -resolution cameras and various sensors, collecting your flight position information with the Global Positioning System (GPS), and automatically flying on the previously memorized route.The altitude and changing career during the flight are performed with the auxiliary wing on the main wings and tail wings.
A large drone with a wing width of 4 meters, which was demonstrated in 2019, succeeded in flying a 3 -hour flight time and 300 kilometers.
If you can fly 1000 kilometers, you can use it for border security and suspicious ships that were impossible due to cruising range.The cost may be cheaper than the US -made unmanned aircraft under the introduction of the Ministry of Defense.
In addition, a large drone with a wing width of 8 meters is planned to develop a jet type alongside the gasoline engine propeller type.The jet type is possible to fly nearly 20,000 meters altitude and can be used for covers for artificial satellites that can fly over Japan only for a limited time (Terra Lab).
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun October 2, 2020