AUVSI 2013: UAV Factory unveils the Penguin C
UAV Factory has used the AUVSI Unmanned Systems exhibition to launch the latest platform in its family of long endurance UAVs, the Penguin C.
According to the company, this is the first time it has offered a platform directly to the end user. Additionally, UAV Factory described its latest strategy to offer a full system package which will also include training.
‘We’re going to now provide a full turnkey solution,’ Konstantins Popiks, CTO for the company, told Shephard during the exhibition in Washington, DC, on 14 August.
He compared the platform to similar systems such as AAI’s Aerosonde and Insitu’s
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