Steadicopter, a leading innovator in the Rotary Unmanned Aerial Systems (RUAS) industry, announces the unveiling of the Golden Eagle HS (Heavy Strike) Rotary Unmanned Aerial System for heavy strike capabilities in collaboration with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. This collaboration expands the Golden Eagle family capabilities, adding a new attack capability dimension, expanding the system’s operational versatility and reinforcing its proven performance. The Golden Eagle HS integrates Rafael’s powerful Spike missiles for precision heavy strike missions in tactical operations and close air support missions including border protection, perimeter security, urban warfare, in open area battlefields, ensuring battlespace dominance and maintaining significant deterrence. The Golden Eagle HS provides rapid and pinpoint accuracy strike capabilities at stand-off range against evolving high-value threats even in dynamic and congested environments. By leveraging manoeuvrability and mission efficiency, ground forces can operate from safe, stand-off positions day and night, against both stationary and moving targets. When mounted on a tactical RUAV, the powerful Spike missile allows for more versatile, longer range, ground attack angles, maximising firepower output while reducing the risk to infantry, marine corps, special forces, and other tactical ground units.

“It is a privilege to lead Steadicopter’s exceptional team in the achievement of another significant milestone. The introduction of the Golden Eagle HS, in collaboration with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. -a global leader in missile technology -represents a modern, tactical solution that meets today’s critical operational demands with unmatched precision and standoff strike capability, without causing collateral damage, while keeping the troops out of harm’s way. This partnership blends Steadicopter’s cutting-edge RUAV technologies with Rafael’s decades of defence expertise, resulting in a solution that is greater than the sum of its parts,” said Itai Toren, CEO of Steadicopter.

A senior Rafael official said: “We are pleased to collaborate with Steadicopter in advancing the future of combat, where modern warfare demands innovative and advanced solutions. This collaboration provides a cutting-edge, standoff warfighting RUAV that may very much reshape modern battlefield and will enable existing and new Spike missile users to utilise them in a new tactical, versatile, and lethal way.

Equipped with advanced Spike missiles, known for their precision guidance and/or fire-and-forget capabilities and high-explosive warheads, the Golden Eagle HS offers enhanced lethality in a small, low signatures platform while covering vast operational areas of interest, expanding the power, versatility and strategic utilisation of assault units. The Golden Eagle HS platforms can be operated in tandem formations, with each RUAV carrying its own missile, ensuring mission continuity even if some units are compromised. This approach enhances operational effectiveness by distributing targets and maintaining strike capability against multiple objectives. With a total take-off weight of 50 kilogrammes the Golden Eagle HS can be equipped with Rafael Spike missiles, SR missile for a range of 2.5 kilometres and the LR2 for a range of 5.5 kilometres, enabling real-time mission versatility and immediate sensor-to-shooter capability at significantly large operational radiuses. The system’s advanced sensor suite, featuring a high-definition day/night EO/IR payload and target tracker, optionally integrated with SightX’s AI advanced technology, ensures seamless target acquisition, tracking, and classification, even in adverse weather conditions and complex terrain. Thus, the system enables an individualised ID per object, ensuring continuous tracking with temporary obstructions or loss of sight within the field of view, and autonomously distinguishing between various targets, whether moving or stationary, human or vehicle-based. This real-time situational awareness empowers ground forces with actionable intelligence, enabling informed decision-making and rapid response capabilities.

Steadicopter Ltd. is a revolutionary player in the Rotary Unmanned Aerial Systems (RUAS) industry, specializing in the design, development and production of rotary tactical UAS. The company delivers exceptional, unprecedented, proven solutions for military, HLS and civilian applications. It provides full-featured solutions for any in-field requirements, enabling vertical take-off and landing, steady hovering and leading mission sensor suites for day and night. Steadicopter is ISO-9001/20015 certified for development, manufacturing, marketing, and sales. The Rotary Unmanned Aerial Systems (RUAS) family are a rotary unmanned air vehicle (RUAV), a robotic observation system that provides Maritime and Land solutions for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR). This is provided using an air vehicle with a vertical takeoff and landing ability, hovering capability, and a wide variety of payloads.