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M1400 Lighter-Than-Air AircraftWORLD’S MOST AFFORDABLE ISR:Meeting Today’s ISR Demand with Innovation, Integration, and Cost Effectiveness

Power Car + DieselMain Drive Engines

Maneuvering EngineTurbine Propulsion

1,610 ft3

(23 ft x 10 ft x 7 ft)Payload Car Volume

Largest UAV in the world• Over 100K ft3 of available payload area:

unprecedented mission flexibility• Up to 6,500 lb payload weight capacity• Eight (8) major independent ISR payloads

Most Bits per Dollar per Day• Very low operating cost

Most powerful UAV-based computer in existence• Enables on-board processing• Minimizes air-to-ground data

Semi-Automated sensor-to-sensor cueing for enhanced threat detection• Increases number of payloads that can be

simultaneously deployed and operated

Modular payload integration architecture• Significantly reduces aircraft-payload

integration time and cost

Very long endurance• 2-7 days depending on payload & altitude

Largest UAV electrical power generation capacity (120 kVA)

M1400 Airship Characteristics

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Blue Devil Block II: On-going USAF program leveraging the Mav6 M1400 airship for persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations.

“…at a 500-nautical mile combat radius, the Air Force’s BD2 would have a

payload-duration about 60 times greater than the Predator’s and more than 10

times greater than the Reaper’s.”

Congressional Budget Office

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M1400 Operational Concept Example

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Potential Coverage of SW BorderSENSOR COVERAGE

Operating Altitude

20,000 ft MSL

EO/IR (Wide Aperture)

110 mi radius (38,000 mi2

coverage) @ 0.5m GSD

SAR-MTI Radar > 150 mi radius (> 76,000 mi2

coverage)

SIGINT 200 mi radius (125,000 mi2

coverage)

Potential M1400 ISR Sensor Coverage

Operating Altitude (ft) 20,000

“Eyes” 110 mi radius (38,000 mi2

coverage)

“Ears” 200 mi radius (125,000 mi2

coverage)

A single M1400 can provide the typesof ISR capability of these 7 ISR systems (SIGINT, COMINT, GMTI, EO/IR, HSI, etc.):

simultaneously; at 3 to 10 times the duration; accomplish

the processing on-board; and do it all for a fraction of the cost…

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M1400 Comprehensive ISR Capability

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120 hour endurance

54X

A single M1400 can provide the typesof ISR capability of these 7 ISR systems (SIGINT,

COMINT, GMTI, EO/IR, HSI, etc.): simultaneously; at 3 to 10 times the duration;

accomplish the processing on-board; and do it all for a fraction of the cost…

1 2 3 4 5 Days

# of AircraftRequired for120 Hours ofContinuousCoverage

Time

16 hour endurance$4k/hr

12 hour endurance$45k/hr

32 hour endurance$32k/hr

12 hour endurance$42k/hr

12 hour endurance$36k/hr

0.5 hour endurance?

12 hour endurance$42K/hr

>$27M

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$4k/hr

Sorties overlap to maintain Persistent Surveillance

$0.5Mthe cost

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M1400: Value PropositionSIGNINT + COMINT + GMTI + EO/IR + HSI

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M1400 Modular Payload Integration

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M1400 Payload Options

Wide-Area EO/IR Synthetic Aperture Radar

M1400 can support the simultaneous deployment of a variety of mission payloads—and integrate all with on-board computers, processing, and mass storage.

High Powered High Definition Full Motion Video

High Bandwidth Data Links Multi-Mode Radar

On-board ProcessingWeapons Modules

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Innovation Adapted mature airship

design to achieve rapid deliverable: Leverages traditional hull design with less complexity and fewer moving parts than alternatives

Open Architecture: Sensor agnostic payload infrastructure

Extensible Ground Segment: Designed to meet expeditionary ISR requirements with local multi-sensor data management, correlation, and storage

M1400 Key Elements

Cost-Effectiveness High payload/

Long endurance enables greater cost-effectiveness: Equivalent pound/hours of ISR would require 10s of multiples of other remotely piloted aircraft

Per flying dollar spent BD2 delivers more ISR capability per hour than other aircraft

Integration System-of-Systems Design:

Designed as a multi-INT system from the beginning

Mission-tailorable sensor suite: Allows rapid reconfiguration in hours to variety of sensor or comm payloads

Moves data processing to point of origin: Meets the tsunami of data challenge

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Provides persistence with largest multi-int payload in existence Wide Area EO/IR with largest aperture EO/IR spot capability Largest “real estate” for SIGINT antenna arrays on any ISR platform

Rapid tipping & cueing provides actionable ISR to users in seconds Sharing of event and geolocation data across disparate sensors directly to users Potential for automated sensor to sensor cuing (e.g. SIGINT to IMINT sensors) Find, fix, identify, and track HVI/HVT with HD sensing and SIGINT queues

On-board processing = more info to users with less bandwidth Moves data processing from ground to air reducing sensor-to-shooter latency Potential as focal point of an ISR constellation integrating multiple platforms

Multi-sensor processing ground station Multi-sensor C2 and visualization in the field reduces sensor analyst requirements

Mission-tailorable sensor suite—in hours not months/years Accelerates deployment and use of new sensing capabilities Adaptability to situation not available with any other ISR asset

M1400 Capabilities: Why it’s Unique

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High payload/Long enduranceenables greater cost-effectiveness

To keep 6,000 lbs of ISR equipment on station for 78 hours it takes:

468,000 lb-hrs ISR ÷ 11,900 lb-hrs ISR = 39.3 MQ-series RPAs per M1400

6,000 lbs ISR equipment x 78 hrs = 468,000 lb-hrs of ISR Mission Capability per aircraft

850 lbs ISR equipment x 14 hrs = 11,900 lb-hrs of ISR Mission Capability per aircraft

M1400 Value Proposition

1468,000 lb-hrs ISR ÷ 11,900 lb-hrs ISR = 39.3 MQ-series RPAs per M1400

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Per flying dollar spent you get 52 times more ISR per hour with M1400 than current fixed-wing UAVs

M1400

6,000 lbs of ISR equipment

78 hrs

$1,117/hr

850 lbs of ISR equipment

14 hrs

$1,456/hr

7 times the ISR mission payload

5-6 times the endurance

75% the cost perflight hour

( 6,000 lbs x 78 hrs ÷ $1,117/hr ) ÷ ( 850 lbs x 14 hrs ÷ $1,456/hr ) = 52.375

M1400 Value Proposition

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CBO Payload-Duration Comparison

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Blue Devil 2 Progress

Humanitarian Assistance

Disaster Relief Persistent Presence Border Patrol Law Enforcement Traffic Management Crowd Control Market Analysis Counter-Drug Ops Communications Relay Cell Phone Networking Home/Facility Security Pipeline Monitoring

Rapid Map Refresh Emergency Response Air Sampling Crop Monitoring Insect/disease Control Flood Control Nuclear Monitoring Counter-terrorism Early Warning Counter-proliferation Counter-piracy Harbor Control Special Operations

Example M1400 Mission Potential

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