Hawk
Range and endurance. Hawk trades the hover for distance, covering linear infrastructure, wide-area survey and long-leg surveillance that rotary airframes cannot reach on a single sortie. It stays airborne two to three times longer than any quad-copter in the family.
Platform airframe shown. Frame class varies by variant.
Hawk data
Published figures for the production airframe. Payload fit and camera options are configured per fleet.
| Designation | FW1 |
|---|---|
| Configuration | Fixed-wing |
| Wingspan | 968 mm ± 0.5 mm |
| Endurance | 60 to 90 minutes |
| Payload | 1.8 kg ± 0.2 kg internal |
| Navigation | Standard GPS 1 to 3 m, or RTK to centimetre |
| Control | Manual & autonomous |
| Ground station | TAK / ATAK · QGroundControl |
| Order code | QC1-7-XXXX |
| Status | In production |
Long-range ISR · Wide-area survey
Hawk is one frame class on a single platform. Where the mission outgrows it, the next airframe up carries the same navigation, the same ground control and the same three-minute build, so the fleet changes without the operating model changing.
- Click-Fit™ airframe, three minute TAKT build
- RTK native navigation
- TAK / ATAK and QGroundControl ground stations
- Manual and autonomous flight
- Field repairable after a thirty-foot drop
- Common parts bin shared across the fleet
Held constant across all five airframes. Built in the United Kingdom on a secure supply chain, 85 percent made in house.
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