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UNMANNED SYSTEMS UPDATE

October 30, 2020 by

Sponsored by The British Robotics Seed Fund

http: www.britbots.com/fund

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23 Oct 20. USAF chief of staff sees Agility Prime aircraft fulfilling logistics missions. The US Air Force’s (USAF’s) top officer views the service’s Agility Prime electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) effort as a way for the air force to develop an unmanned logistics capability.

General Charles Brown, USAF chief of staff, said on 21 October that the service has been able to use unmanned platforms to perform missions including strike and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), but not logistics. The USAF has used the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) MQ-9 Reaper medium altitude long endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for strike missions while the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk high altitude long endurance (HALE) surveillance platform has been used extensively for ISR missions.

Gen Brown said that he is often asked why the USAF needs a ‘flying car’ (the colloquial term for eVTOL platforms).

“It is less about the flying car, it is the capability that it might provide in the future to be able to do logistics for us, to move things back and forth,” Gen Brown said during a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies event.

Agility Prime platforms have capability beyond logistics. Gen Brown said that he has been approached by industry partners about performing personnel recovery in highly contested areas. Many Agility Prime platforms in development are being designed as optionally manned. (Source: Jane’s)

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The British Robotics Seed Fund is the first SEIS-qualifying investment fund specialising in UK-based robotics businesses. The focus of the fund is to deliver superior returns to investors by making targeted investments in a mixed basket of the most innovative and disruptive businesses that are exploiting the new generation of robotics technologies in defence and other sector applications.

Automation and robotisation are beginning to drive significant productivity improvements in the global economy heralding a new industrial revolution. The fund allows investors to benefit from this exciting opportunity, whilst also delivering the extremely attractive tax reliefs offered by the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS). For many private investors, the amount of specialist knowledge required to assess investments in robotics is not practical and hence investing through a fund structure makes good sense.

The fund appoints expert mentors to work with each investee company to further maximise the chance of success for investors. Further details are available on request.

www.britbots.com/fund

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