Martin UAV V-BAT Sets Record Over 9 Hours of Endurance

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(Newswire.net — February 28, 2018) Plano, Texas — Martin UAV’s tail sitting VTOL Fixed Wing UAV, launch early on February 13 from a Yuma Proving Grounds test range on a flight test intended to confirm its previous 8 hour endurance flight. V-Bat #7 landed 9.1 hours later, beating its previous record by an hour. It landed with more than 1 hour and 20 minutes of fuel remaining, demonstrating again its ability to exceed the V-BAT’s published endurance of 8 hours. Ruben Martin, President and CEO of Martin UAV said, “The unwavering focus of our engineering team on improving the V-Bat’s performance has taken us from initial testing of a unique concept aircraft 2 years ago to routinely exceeding expectations. This new endurance milestone coupled with our ability to operate in extremely austere locations provides the warfighter with game changing Group II/II UAV ISR possibilities.”

The endurance flight was part of a series of tests conducted at Yuma Proving Grounds in support of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between the U.S. Government and Martin UAV.

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