2 March 2018 – Mobilicom is pleased to announce it has secured a new design win with US-based UAV manufacturer Swift Engineering Inc.
The new design win will see Swift Engineering simultaneously integrate Mobilicom’s MCU-30 and SkyHopper PRO solution into its Swift020 platform.
The Swift020 has the ability to take off and land anywhere, like other quad-rotor devices, while being able to transition to efficient fixed-wing forward flight without additional launch and recovery equipment. It is intended for long-range operation services such as firefighting, rescue and surveillance, with production set for 2018.
Based in San Clemente, California, Swift Engineering is a product development and manufacturing services company with more than 30 years of experience designing and building high performance vehicles, specialising in unmanned systems, autonomy, robotics and advanced composites. The Swift020 is the culmination of more than three years of research and development, creativity and innovation in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) marketplace. Swift is also known for developing and selling the Swift KillerBee, also known as the Northrop Bat.
This marks the eighth design win for SkyHopper, hitting this objective four months earlier than originally forecast. It positions the company strongly for important market share, and therefore revenues, in the growing commercial and industrial drone sector.