The Nauru 1000C system was delivered to the Brazilian Army to carry out surveillance, security and border monitoring missions
December 2022 will forever be marked in the history of XMobots and the Brazilian Army. For the first time in the history of national aviation, the Army will incorporate a national SARP (remotely piloted aircraft system) into its fleet of aircraft. The system in question is the Nauru 1000C, developed by the manufacturer XMobots and which will be used for surveillance, security and border monitoring missions. The official handover ceremony took place this week at the Brazilian Army Aviation Command in Taubaté (SP).
The SARP consists of 3 remotely piloted aircraft, category 2 (up to 150 kilos), 1 mobile base with 3 ground control stations, 2 stabilized optronic gimbals, GMTI and SAR radars, 3D scanners, 2 60km data transmission terminals and 1 100km data link terminal. This set was developed at the request of the Brazilian Army for highly strategic surveillance, security and border monitoring operations.
The SARP Nauru 1000C has outstanding dimensions, with a wingspan of 7.7 meters, a length of 2.9 meters and a height of almost 1 meter. With a maximum weight of 150 kg, the Nauru 1000C is a VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) with hybrid propulsion (combustion and electric power), a long range of 10 hours and a cruising speed of 110 km/h (60 knots).
The gimbal, a gyro-stabilized turret attached to each aircraft, features optronics in the visible spectrum (EO), mid-infrared (MWIR), laser rangefinder (LRF) and laser designator (LP). All of them make it possible to capture stabilized images in very high definition for surveillance, reconnaissance, intelligence and target acquisition missions.
The SARP also features the mobile base (shelter), which serves to transport and control the real-time operations of aircraft in flight, containing three ground control stations (primary aircraft data instrumentation, moving maps and general command interface), as well as being fully equipped for maximum comfort, safety and stress reduction for the team during missions.
At the official handover ceremony, Giovani Amianti, CEO of XMobots, and the development team responsible for the project were present for the event. The military authorities General of the Army Tomás Miguel Paiva (Military Commander of the Southeast), General of the Army Eduardo Antonio Fernandes (Chief of the Logistics Command of the Brazilian Army) and Brigadier General Anysio Luiz Crespo Negrão (Director of Aviation Material of the Brazilian Army) were illustriously present to sign for the delivery during the ceremony.
"[This system] is taking the Brazilian Army to another level in terms of technology, intelligence and target acquisition. This technology will help us a lot in border operations, operations in urban environments and even conventional operations," said General Tomás.
"It's a boost in technology, an acquisition of a defense product, of a very important deployed material system, which will give us another operational capability. We'll be able to improve logistics in the future," explained the Logistics Commander, Army General Eduardo Antônio Fernandes.
Giovani Amianti honored the delivery of the Nauru 1000C SARP with an energetic speech, "Today, on this memorable day for the Brazilian technology industry, we deliver to the nation an innovative aviation material, the state of the art in technology, the Nauru 1000C, which in many years will place Brazil as one of the nations with one of the most advanced SARPs in the world," Amianti stressed.
He continued: "With the delivery of the SARP Nauru 1000C, a new journey begins and we assume our commitment to the Brazilian Army to maintain, with all the dedication of XMobots, the project of defending our nation, thus honoring all the investment made by Brazilian society in the training of us, engineers, and public and cutting-edge universities. We are more than 250 families who corroborate the same purpose, and who all with one voice say 'Thank you, Brazilian Army'", concluded the CEO of XMobots.
About XMobots:
XMobots was founded in 2007 with the mission of developing the mobile robot market with cutting-edge technology and the dream of making mobile robotics an everyday reality. The company has specialized in the development and manufacture of remotely piloted aircraft, becoming the largest in Latin America.
Today the XMobots team has more than 250 employees, including 80 engineers in the Research and Development team.
Producing and offering fixed-wing, multi-rotor and hybrid drones and serving a wide range of markets, including defense, XMobots continues to consolidate several milestones in the history of remotely piloted aircraft in Brazil. And over the course of its history, its body of shareholders has been gaining important companies, such as the most recent, Embraer.