New Italian UAV

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The italian Piaggo Aerospace is working tirelessly to obtain certifications for its latest UAV – the HammerHead. The vehicle has two engines enabling it to fly at up to 750 km/h, it weighs 500kg and can fly at maximum height of 12.5km or so.

Piaggo Aerospace hopes to get the certificate for the vehicle by the end of this year and then transport two initial platforms to the Italian Air Force. The company isn’t only looking to the military market, but to the civilian one as well, intending to market 60% of all its products to commercial clients and the remaining 40% to militaries around the world. The company also aspires to enlarge production of aerial vehicles made in its factory from nine per year, as it is today, to seventeen – after the building of its new manufacturing facility is complete.

As for as the HammerHead goes, the company doesn’t intend to limit itself just to local markets but plans on selling it to other markets in Europe, as to countries in the Middle East and Far East.

The name of the UAV derives from its shape which looks somewhat like a hammer, from the front. It has patroling, intelligence gathering and observation capabilities and so every army can find it useful for its needs. The vehicle is another product of the UAVs market which is taking huge steps forward as time passes. Each day we’re witnessing new vehicles being put on the market, claiming to be better than any other vehicle on the market today. The competition between UAV manufacturing companies could develop new technologies faster as every company spends and invests to make itself better than the competition while competing for the potential clients’ pocket and trust, in military as well as civilian markets.