Quantum-Systems delivers first Vector ISR eVTOL to Dutch MoD

Quan­tum-Sys­tems, togeth­er with BSS Hol­land, has announced the deliv­ery of its first Vec­tor eVTOL to the Dutch Min­istry of Defence (MoD), claim­ing indus­try-lead­ing flight endurance, ease of oper­a­tion, and reli­a­bil­i­ty.

Found­ed in 2015, Quantum’s Vec­tor 2‑in‑1 ver­ti­cal take-off recon­nais­sance unmanned aer­i­al sys­tem (UAS) pro­vides long-endurance, ver­sa­til­i­ty, and flex­i­bil­i­ty exceed­ing the per­for­mance of con­ven­tion­al UAS plat­forms.

Vec­tor streams live data in real-time using a Mesh IP encrypt­ed data link with a range of over 15 kilo­me­tres. Equipped with advanced AI capa­bil­i­ties, the data assess­ment process of Vec­tor is sup­port­ed by auto­mat­ic detec­tion, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and track­ing algo­rithms, which pro­vide on-the-ground tac­ti­cal units with impor­tant safe­ty and effi­cien­cy ben­e­fits.

With a sin­gle flight time of 120 min­utes, it is suit­ed for appli­ca­tions such as Intel­li­gence, Sur­veil­lance, and Recon­nais­sance (ISR) for enhanced sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness, area map­ping, Search & Res­cue (SAR), and con­voy and VIP Pro­tec­tion. Vec­tor inte­grates dual elec­tro-opti­cal and infra-red gim­bal sen­sors, enabling both day and night mis­sions.

Estab­lished in 2008, BSS Hol­land con­cen­trates on pro­vid­ing Com­mand, Con­trol, Com­put­ers, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Cyber, Intel­li­gence, Sur­veil­lance, and Recon­nais­sance (C5ISR) and robot­ics solu­tions for chal­leng­ing secu­ri­ty and defence mis­sion gaps.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion with Quan­tum-Sys­tems builds future readi­ness for tac­ti­cal edge, help­ing pro­fes­sion­als in defence and home­land secu­ri­ty. Quan­tum-Sys­tems’ Vec­tor & Scor­pi­on 2‑in‑1 ISR sys­tem is part of the BSS Hol­land prod­uct port­fo­lio since 2021.

The Dutch Min­istry of Defence chose Vec­tor as a pre­ferred sys­tem due to its ver­sa­til­i­ty, data pro­tec­tion and secu­ri­ty capa­bil­i­ties, enabled by the AES-Encrypt­ed mesh IP data link opti­mised for tac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions.

The real-time onboard data pro­cess­ing and the capa­bil­i­ties of QBase Tac­ti­cal Mis­sion Con­trol soft­ware can dynam­i­cal­ly adjust the mis­sion in flight for non-inva­sive aer­i­al oper­a­tions, allow­ing ground teams to orches­trate com­plex mis­sions with a few clicks.

In august 2020, DB Fahrweg­di­en­ste announced it was using Quan­tum-Sys­tems’ Trin­i­ty F90+ VTOL drones for storm dam­age detec­tion and veg­e­ta­tion inspec­tion along its 33,500 kilo­me­tres rail net­work.

Quan­tum-Sys­tems’ VTOL drones to help main­tain Germany’s rail­way infra­struc­ture

Before that in June 2020, Quan­tum-Sys­tems used its Trin­i­ty F90+ eVTOL drone to help deliv­er Covid-19 tests to a Munich lab­o­ra­to­ry in less than sev­en min­utes to trans­port 20 sam­ple tubes over the 6.4 kilo­me­tres dis­tance between a mobile Covid-19 test sta­tion on the There­sien­wiese in Munich to the lab­o­ra­to­ry in Führich­straße.

Quan­tum-Sys­tems deliv­ers Covid-19 tests using eVTOL drone in less than sev­en min­utes