BAE Systems acquires drone specialist Malloy Aeronautics

BAE Systems acquires Malloy Aeronautics, a leader in aeronautical and heavy-lift electric drone technologies.

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Malloy Aeronautics designs and supplies all-electric unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to civil and military customers. Its range of unmanned heavy-lift quadcopters are capable of lifting payloads up to 300 kg on short to medium range missions.

These platforms offer interchangeable capabilities and increased flexibility at a fraction of the cost and time of more traditional methods, while minimizing risk to expensive assets and human life.

BAE Systems and Malloy, who have been working together to advance advanced UAS solutions since 2021, will further develop Malloy’s existing portfolio and accelerate new and novel technologies for customers around the world.

BAE Systems and Malloy Aeronautics engineers have been collaborating on the development of the all-electric 300 kg «heavy-lift» T-650 UAS as a potential new solution to deliver a cost-effective and sustainable rapid response capability to military, civil and security customers.

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Last year, the companies announced that the successful demonstration of the T-600 demonstrator prototype had reached a major milestone in a NATO exercise known as REPMUS (Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping with Maritime Uncrewed Systems). Drones developed from the T-600 could complement shipborne anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopters, increasing their lethality as an additional light torpedo delivery vector.

Malloy Aeronautics will be part of FalconWorks, BAE Systems’ airborne research and development (R&D) division.