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