M1400 BD2 Overview
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M1400 Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft
WORLD’S MOST
AFFORDABLE ISR:
Meeting Today’s ISR
Demand with Innovation,
Integration, and Cost
Effectiveness
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M1400 Airship Characteristics
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
Maneuvering Engine
Turbine Propulsion
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
Power Car + Diesel
Main Drive Engines
1,610 ft3
(23 ft x 10 ft x 7 ft)
Payload Car Volume
Largest UAV electrical power generation
capacity (120 kVA)
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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
Potential Coverage of SW Border
SENSOR COVERAGE
Operating
Altitude
EO/IR (Wide
Aperture)
SAR-MTI Radar
SIGINT
20,000 ft MSL
110 mi radius (38,000 mi2
coverage) @ 0.5m GSD
> 150 mi radius (> 76,000 mi2
coverage)
200 mi radius (125,000 mi2
coverage)
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M1400 Comprehensive ISR Capability
Hrs
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 types
of 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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80-120 hrs
On-station Vs=
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M1400: Value Proposition
SIGNINT + COMINT + GMTI + EO/IR + HSI
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2
Days
3
4
5
12 hour endurance
A single M1400 can provide the types
of 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…
$42K/hr
Sorties overlap to maintain Persistent Surveillance
12 hour endurance
$45k/hr
32 hour endurance
$32k/hr
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12 hour endurance
$42k/hr
OR
$4k/hr
2
Days
3
4
5
120 hour endurance
12 hour endurance
$36k/hr
0.5 hour endurance
?
16 hour endurance
$4k/hr
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# of Aircraft
Required for
120 Hours of
Continuous
Coverage
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6
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>$27M
for 120 hours of Persistent Surveillance
Time
54X
the cost
$0.5M
for 120 hours of Persistent Surveillance
Time
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M1400 Modular Payload Integration
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M1400 Payload Options
M1400 can support the simultaneous deployment of a variety of mission payloads—
and integrate all with on-board computers, processing, and mass storage.
Wide-Area EO/IR
Synthetic
Aperture Radar
High Powered High Definition
Full Motion Video
On-board Processing
High Bandwidth
Data Links
Weapons
Modules
Multi-Mode Radar
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M1400 Key Elements
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 multisensor data management,
correlation, and storage
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
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
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M1400 Capabilities: Why it’s Unique
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
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M1400 Value Proposition
To keep 6,000 lbs of ISR equipment on
station for 78 hours it takes:
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M1400
Current FixedWing UAVs
468,000 lb-hrs ISR ÷ 11,900 lb-hrs ISR = 39.3 MQ-series RPAs per M1400
OR
6,000 lbs ISR equipment x 78 hrs = 468,000 lb-hrs
of ISR Mission Capability per aircraft
468,000 lb-hrs ISR ÷ 11,900 lb-hrs ISR = 39.3 MQ-series RPAs per M1400
850 lbs ISR equipment x 14 hrs = 11,900 lb-hrs
of ISR Mission Capability per aircraft
High payload/Long endurance
enables greater cost-effectiveness
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M1400 Value Proposition
M1400
AT
FOR
7
5-6
75%
times the ISR
mission payload
Current FixedWing UAVs
6,000 lbs of ISR equipment
850 lbs of ISR equipment
78 hrs
14 hrs
$1,117/hr
$1,456/hr
times the
endurance
the cost per
flight hour
( 6,000 lbs x 78 hrs ÷ $1,117/hr ) ÷ ( 850 lbs x 14 hrs ÷ $1,456/hr ) = 52.375
Per flying dollar spent you get 52 times more ISR per
hour with M1400 than current fixed-wing UAVs
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CBO Payload-Duration Comparison
Payload-Duration (Pound-Hours)
300,000
250,000
200,000
M1400
150,000
100,000
50,000
MQ-9 Reaper
Grey Eagle
MQ-1 Predator
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
Combat Radius (Nautical Miles)
Source: Congressional Budget Office based on data provided by manufacturers.
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Blue Devil 2 Progress
Example M1400 Mission Potential
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
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