BAE’s Herti is a combat veteran
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are no longer strangers at aerospace and defense exhibitions, but BAE Systems’ Herti claims a world’s first as a fully auto

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are no longer strangers at aerospace and defense exhibitions, but BAE Systems’ Herti claims a world’s first as a fully autonomous UAV system. The little airplane making its Singapore debut in the static park here doesn’t look very exciting but appearances can deceive and Herti has proven to be a remarkably capable system–not just a reliable platform carrying a variety of sensors.

Furthermore, it can claim to be combat proven, having spent some time at a UK armed forces base in Afghanistan, where its remarkable on-board data processing capability showed that Herti can provide an answer to information overload problems by responding to precise information requests from command headquarters many thousands of miles away.