Nightwind 2: The Future Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This is the Nightwind 2, a compact, unmanned aerial vehicle made of carbon fiber. Powered by an amazing new two-stroke, direct-injected, 88-cc hybrid boxer engine developed by Ricardo the Nightwind will change the future of UAVs.
Unmanned aerial vehicles, a.k.a. drones, are not a new enterprise — they've been flying in military applications for years, and have become integral parts of both Air Force and Navy arsenals and key tools in ground-troop operations. Everyone knows the big bad Predator drones that fly mission in the war zones and have the capability to destroy targets remotely, but those require nearly as ground support as a regular manned aircraft. The cost and complexity of those big drones is driving development in much more user- and taxpayer friendly compact UAVs. The Nightwind is an example of the latter.
CenTauri Solutions Announces Strategic Alliance with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- CenTauri Solutions, LLC (CenTauri) announced that it has entered into a Strategic Alliance Agreement with Unmanned Aerial Systems, Inc. (UAS) for the purposes of providing long dwell, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the various components of the United States Intelligence Community (IC). Under the Agreement, UAS will provide mission appropriate models of its Nightwind family of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and CenTauri will act as the prime contractor and systems integrator. CenTauri will integrate mission appropriate sensor systems and provide a "turn-key" solution to the government customer.
"CenTauri is delighted to have UAS as part of our team providing cutting edge ISR solutions to DoD and the IC," said CenTauri Managing Partner, Glenn Beach. "Their Nightwind UAVs represent the most capable, flexible and cost conscious platform choices available in today's marketplace," said Beach. "We believe that, together, CenTauri and UAS can offer some unbeatable ISR solutions to today's warfighter."
"Working with CenTauri is a natural fit for UAS," said UAS President and CEO, Sandy Mangold. "Combining our UAV technology with CenTauri's extensive expertise in long dwell ISR solutions will help ensure that we can rapidly field, low-cost ISR solutions that will greatly exceed the end user's expectations."
Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, CenTauri Solutions is a technology company that provides innovative solutions to the National Security, Intelligence and Homeland Security communities. In addition to consulting and professional services, CenTauri also provides innovative products in the areas of long dwell ISR, video surveillance and associative memory, among others.
Headquartered in North Las Vegas, Nevada, UAS produces a series of UAVs under the family name Nightwind. The Nightwind family of blended wing UAVs is designed to provide low noise, visual and radar signatures. These capabilities will satisfy a wide variety of payload, performance and mission requirements.
