Royal Thai Navy Demonstrates MARCUS, UAV for Maritime Patrols
24 Februari 2021
Research and development project for unmanned aerial vehicles for marine reconnaissance MARCUS (Maritime Aerial Reconnaissance Craft Unmanned System) by the Royal Thai Navy Research and Development Agency, together with the Thai private sector is SDT Composites as designer and manufacturer of aerial structures, and PIMS Technologies as developer of flight control and communication systems. This is the latest development of the Royal Thai Navy.
Prior to that, the Royal Thai Navy developed a Falcon-V FUVEC (Fixed wing Unmanned aerial vehicle with Vertical takeoff and landing Enabled Capability) unmanned aerial vehicle in collaboration with TOP Engineering Corporation that has been tested for actual use, MARCUS unmanned aerial vehicle is a system of similar flight design but different size.
The Royal Thai Navy has supplied UAV systems that are developed domestically, especially those that NEDA has collaborated with public and private agencies such as the Narai 3.0 vertical plane, Ongkot and Tarem, which have mass production lines and have been put into operation.
The latest is the D-Eyes 02 Mini UAV, a small unmanned aerial vehicle system in collaboration with the Defense Technology Institute of Thailand.
National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) has funded research and development to in the framework of the limit 10.000,000 baht for the VTOL UAV fixed wing, payload 4-5kg, can fly for 4-5 hours and take off from an area of only 3x3 meters.
After the demonstration of the latest operational test on February 18, 2011 at the Naval Aviation Division Royal Navy MARCUS unmanned aircraft will be launched into production and delivered into the Royal Thai Navy as well as UAV systems that have been previously researched and developed.
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