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SNIPER combines three important aspects of any rotary wing UAV of this type:
Vertical take-off and landing; hovering.
Long endurance, due to its gasoline powered engine.
Considerable payload capacity, enabling the se of high quality EO / IR cameras and other sensors.
A variety of payloads are available to maximize the chances of mission success:
Day vision
Low light vision
Night vision or IR.
The AFCU used in the SNIPER is capable of controlling the platform over a wide range of flight control tasks:
Auto take-off
Auto Flight plan execution (waypoints)
Fly-to
Hover
Auto Return-To-base (RTB) in case of communication failure
Auto landing
Manual override
Camera (payload) stabilization, pointing and control
onboard 3D Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for accurate flight control and camera pointing