Emergency services
First picture, fastest. Search, rescue and incident command.
- Sector colour
- Red Orange
- Reference
- #FE4306
- Mission types
- 4
- Recommended airframes
- 3
Why UAS, and why this platform.
In the first minutes of an incident the constraint is information. An airframe that launches in three minutes and survives a hard landing gives command an overhead picture before the second appliance arrives.
Every ShadowVu airframe shares one architecture, one parts bin and the same three-minute build, so scaling the aircraft to this mission never means leaving the platform or standing up a second support chain. Aircraft are made in the United Kingdom on a secure supply chain, 85 percent in house, with a defined pathway to remove China from that chain entirely.
Representative operating environment. Aircraft are configured to the mission rather than the other way around.
What the fleet is asked to do here.
The mission types this sector deploys against most often. Payloads are configured per mission, in house or with partners through ShadowVu Labs.
Search and rescue
Incident overwatch
Wildfire assessment
Flood response
Where we would start.
A recommendation, not a rule. Every aircraft is built on the same architecture, so the choice is a frame class and an endurance profile rather than a different product.
Scout
Quad-copter · FPV
First picture, fastest. Scout is in the air in three minutes and survives the hard landings that come with unprepared ground.
Ranger
Quad-copter · FPV
Ranger holds an overhead picture for incident command while the ground picture is still forming, and it is repaired on the tailgate rather than returned to a depot.
Huey
Quad-copter · FPV
Search and wildfire assessment depend on multi-sensor and thermal stacks, and Huey has the payload bay and the lift to take them.
Persistent, uncrewed coverage of a fixed site is added with Quad-Dock, which charges and relaunches the aircraft without a person present. Fleets of any size are managed through ShadowVu Everest.
Get the full picture
Bring the emergency services requirement.
Tell us what has to be seen, how often and under what constraint, and we will be straight with you about the airframe, the payload and what the platform does not do.