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Penguin C Long Endurance,

Long Range Small Tactical UAVRolands Ozoliņš, Business Development DirectorSeptember 21, 2016

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UAV Factory: Key facts

• In business since 2009

• 60+ people

• Large R&D part of business

• Vertically integrated manufacturing

• Leading position in fixed wing small Unmanned

Aircraft System market

• Located in Latvia

UAVF is focussed on perfecting a single type of airframe

• Over 160 delivered

• Customers in 43 countries

• World flight endurance record of 54,4 hours since

2012

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Penguin C is ready-to-fly Long

Endurance, Long Range

Unmanned Aerial System

Penguin B is most widely used

commercial airframe for system

integrators

Airbus Space and Defence, DLR,

Insitu Pacific, Wright Patterson

AFB, Naval Research Laboratory

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US military UAS classification

Penguin C is small tactical /

Group 2 UAS

Boeing / Insitu’s ScanEagle is the

most widely used aircraft of the

class

Source: http://www.ndia.org/divisions/divisions/solic/documents/weatherington_slides_3-1-11.pdf

Penguin C

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Civilian classification: small UAS up top 25kgs MTOW

Small UAS class has less regulatory

requirements to fly

Penguin C provides highest

performance in its class

Source: http://www.droneii.com/drone-performance-cluster

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Small tactical UAS: Penguin C vs. ScanEagle

Penguin C performance is on par

with ScanEagle

Penguin C was designed with commercial viability in mind

Source: https://www.mindef.gov.sg/navy/careers/our-assets/scaneagle-uav.html, https://insitu.com/defense

Penguin C ScanEagle

MTOW 22,5 kg 22 kg

Max Payload weight 3,5 kg 3,4 kg

Wingspan 3,3m 3,11m

Flight endurance 20+ hours 24+ hours

Range 100km 100km

Design objectives Commercial feasibility Military

Penguin C has lower cost, less

equipment and personnel

requirements

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Key system design decisions

Source: http://www.droneii.com/drone-performance-cluster

Reliability

Minimizing loss

Maximizing UAV flight hours

Low cost of operations

Best in class payloads

Reliability

Considerations

• System must be tightly integrated

• We must have our own fuel injected engine

• We must routinely fly ourselves

As a result

• We own and manufacture every key component except

autopilot

• We have developed our own EFI engine

• We are truly single source system provider

• We fly 2 UAVs every day up to 16 hours

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Equipment loss must be minimised

Considerations:

• Customers may bunkrupt if they crash their expensive

equipment

• UAVF would loose a customer forever

As a result:

• We have developed sophisticated parachute / airbag

landing system and payload retract mechanism

• Even catastrophic failure means elegant parachute landing

• Less equiment needed for landing

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Maximizing flight hours

Considerations:

• Customers must be able to operate day-in day-out

• Minimum down-time due to maintenance

• Minimum skills to maintain

As a result:

• Modular structure

• Field replaceable almost everything

• 10 minutes and 4 screws to change engine compartment

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Reasonable cost of operations

Considerations:

• Operations must cost significantly below cost of manned

aircraft

• Minimum personnel and equipment required

• All components must be man portable and must fit in

average commercial van

• Operation complexity must permit average person to be

trained within 3 weeks

• Airfield independence

• Easy to provide international assignments

As a result:

• Penguin C is the most mobile system in its class

• 2 persons required to assemble, check, operate and

maintain the system

• ITAR free products allow for easy deployment outside

country

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What best in class mobility really means?

This is not mobility

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What best in class mobility really means?

This is mobility

We must provide best in class payloads and installing

third party payloads must be easy

Considerations:

• UAV value is in the information they provide

• Day / nighttime visual information is the most widely used

information

• We must provide best in class payloads

• Can we develop world class or better payloads with

advanced imaging functionality?

As a result:

• Yes, we can!

• Octopus ISR System division developing payloads

• Penguin UAVs designed for simple third party payload

integration

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What to expect from modern EO payloads on small UAS?

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Possibility to have situational awareness of a

very large area

Must have capabilities:

• All digital system

• Fully stabilized image• Narrow field of view 2° or less

• Software based image processing

• Image stabilization

• Automated target tracking

• Moving Target Indicator

Limitations:

• Weight

• Size

• Class of UAV

Why partner with UAV Factory?

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• Access to world class small tactical UAV capability at reasonable cost

• Regional partner located couple of hours away

• Every military customer is significant• Focus on supporting local and

independent UAV capabilities

Next step:Visit to our manufacturing facility and flying range for capability briefing

UAV Factory Ltd., Europe7 Peldu Street, Jelgava, Latvia, LV-3002

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+371 29191590+371 20262126

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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/01/19/more-u-s-military-drones-are-crashing-than-ever-as-new-problems-emerge/