Close Air Support · Remote-Piloted · No Pilot in the Kill Box
VANGUARD · CAS
OVERWATCH · VANGUARD™
Vanguard
A-10 firepower. A fraction of the cost. Zero pilot risk. Gets low and close where manned CAS cannot — hover, strafe, loiter over the contact point.
4–6 hr
ENDURANCE
55 kg
WEAPONS
1700 rpm
M134
≪ A-10
COST/HR
Why It Wins
A-10 firepower. A fraction of the cost. Zero pilot risk.
- Nose-embedded M134 Minigun — 6-barrel 7.62 mm rotary at 1,700 RPM for troop-level suppressive fire.
- Operated from thousands of miles away via SATCOM — no pilot in the kill box, no SERE, no captured-aviator scenario.
- ≈$1M airframe vs. ~$20K/hr to operate an A-10 — sustain a fire mission for the cost of a single sortie.
- Same airframe as Sentinel — one logistics tail covers both ISR and CAS fleets.
SPECIFICATIONSVANGUARD · REV 1
MTOW
140 kg
WEAPONS PAYLOAD
55 kg (modular bay)
ENDURANCE
4–6 hrs (mission dependent)
PRIMARY ARMAMENT
Nose-embedded M134 Minigun — 6-barrel 7.62 mm rotary, 1,700 RPM
SECONDARY
Modular weapon bay — mixed munitions / stand-off effectors
AIRFRAME
Coaxial Octacopter (common with Sentinel)
POWERPLANT
Hybrid ICE / Generator / Battery
CONTROL LINK
Starlink · LTE · Mesh · SATCOM (primary)
PILOT
Remote — no onboard crew; operable from continental CONUS
COMPLIANCE
NDAA Section 848 · American-built · BlueUAS pending
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