Autonomous navigation specialist Near Earth and aerospace and defense tech company L3Harris say they successfully conducted simulated UAV deliveries of critical medical supplies, including whole blood, to soldiers in far-off battle situations under a US Army program.
The partners say the test flights confirm the viability of their offer permitting armed forces officials to quickly dispatch urgent material hundreds of miles for use by medics tending to wounded troops in the field. Their demonstration used Near Earth’s end-to-end automated navigation platform to fly an L3Harris FVR-90 Airframe UAV, and make delivery of its medical supplies payload to remote locations under differing retrieval scenarios.
The project relied on the L3Harris FVR-90 Airframe’s hybrid vertical takeoff and landing UAV, which can carry up to 22 lbs. of cargo in its nose compartment. The autonomous navigation platform controlled the flight from lift-off to the mission’s final…
