(Boursier.com) — Drone Volt delivered two Hercules 20 drones to the French Navy, and trained two expert pilots. This order is the result of a contract from the DMAé (Aeronautical Maintenance Department, a joint organization attached to the Chief of the Defense Staff), signed in 2021 by Flying Eye.
The off-the-shelf acquisition of the two Hercules 20s aims to carry out an experiment on the transport of equipment using two different tools: a winch or a ‘dropper’. The first allows the materials to be placed on the ground, the second to drop them.
At this stage, the various situations suggest numerous sea-sea or ground-sea applications. Drone Volt hopes to deploy the Hercules 20 soon on a larger scale with the French armies. The Group points out that this type of solution has already been tested on offshore oil platforms, in the mountains and in other places that are difficult to access.
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