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of the airframe from the canard to the main wing, with a wingspan of 5.1 m. The electric version of the craft has an MTOW of 45 kg (22 kg empty weight) and a payload capacity of 8 kg. It can typically fly at up to 130 kph, or 95 kph in standard cruise. The V40’s powertrain can also have some of its batteries swapped for a hybrid range extender, to boost the flight range from 450 km (the maximum on battery power alone) to 1300 km (or more, pending further flight tests). The hybrid propulsion system also enables a 140 kph maximum speed and a 100 kph cruise, although the flight ceiling is reduced from 4500 m to 3500 m. “It is designed for missions such as maritime surveillance, border control, traffic monitoring and similar, and we use only CAN bus comms inside the aircraft to maintain fast and stable data transmissions between all the subsystems,” Hartzdorf noted. UAV Components displayed two new sensor gimbals for unmanned aircraft for the first time at the show. “The first one we’re unveiling is the Øi Lite, which comes with a 10x optical zoom and weighs 290 g, although we’re hoping to do a little more redesigning to get that down to 250 g,” said Frank Severinsen. “The second is the Øi 360, which is designed with six smaller cameras fixed in the upper rim above the main sensor ball, arranged radially in a 360 º FOV, with a built-in Tegra TX2 media processor chip from Nvidia, a 30x optical zoom and two FLIR thermal cameras. This arrangement can be used for additional situational awareness so that pilot teams don’t collide with anything while focused on the view from the main gimballed camera.” The Øi 360 can also be programmed to turn and focus autonomously on moving objects or targets of interest picked up by the 360° cameras, to gain a closer view and gather intelligence using the thermal cameras or the 30x zoom. “The Nvidia processor we’ve chosen can run all the necessary neural networks and other AI algorithms for running intelligent recognition or detection algorithms through the 4K cameras, so that UAVs being used to monitor specific targets such as in border survey, maritime surveillance or industrial inspections can do so more easily,” Severinsen added. The company also unveiled its new C2Nav GCS for UAV operators, which is based on the Panasonic Toughbook CF20 and Toughpad FZ-A2 ruggedised tablets, and comes with versions for Windows, Linux and Android operating systems. Specifications of the C2Nav will be released later this year. Lastly, UAV Components launched its G2Nav, the company’s first large ruggedised GCS which comes in a Pelican case. It integrates two 21.5 in