Page 9 of World SkyCat Brochure by World SkyCat Ltd

skypatrol surveillance/border control the skycat-20 offers the ideal solution to the vital need for a high-endurance lowcost and versatile airborne platform for missions such as border control counterdrug operations coastguard search and rescue harbour traffic monitoring and police surveillance ­ as well as civil uses such as surveillance of gas and oil pipelines existing airborne solutions necessarily involve compromises between range and payload endurance and cost by contrast the skycat-20 skypatrol offers the optimal surveillance platform for the full range of security operations in particular hush and stealth cruising on its rear engines the skycat is extremely quiet while composite construction materials give an i/r and a radar signature as small as that of a light aircraft long endurance typically 7 days on station on a 4,000-mile patrol mission if required to land and take off vertically vtol the vehicle has a 3-4 day endurance capability the spacious cabin provides ample operational accommodation and recreation room for flight and technical crews for the duration of their duty-cycle surveillance payload even in vtol operation the skycat can carry up to 10 tons of military equipment sufficient to provide a complete technical surveillance suite including the large radar antennae necessary for penetrating jungle canopy advanced sniffer and e/m detection devices and the latest infra-red imaging equipment low vulnerability the skycat is virtually impervious to automatic rifle and mortar fire ordnance passes through the envelope without causing critical helium loss see page 6 in all instances of light armament fire evaluated under both test and live conditions the vehicle was able to complete its mission and return to base interdiction able to land on water or rough terrain independent of any support the skycat offers a total patrol vehicle with a direct interdiction capability 9

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