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VisionWave Holdings, Inc. highlighted its STRATUM autonomous ground systems architecture, a family of modular unmanned ground platforms, each of which is in development, designed to support multiple defense, security and logistics missions from a common technology foundation. No platform in the STRATUM ground family has completed qualification testing, entered serial production, been sold to a customer or generated revenue.
VisionWave’s ground development programs include the VARAN, RANGER, SCOUT and RECON platforms, each of which is in development and each designed around the concept that the vehicle remains consistent while the mission module can change based on operational requirements.
The Company believes this payload-agnostic approach can allow military and security operators to deploy a common autonomous platform architecture across a range of missions rather than maintaining separate vehicles for every application.
VARAN: A Modular Ground Platform
The VARAN platform is being designed to target specifications that include a payload capacity of approximately 500 kilograms, towing capacity exceeding 1,000 kilograms, maximum speed of approximately 70 km/h (45 mph) and mission time of approximately four hours, extendable to 28 hours depending upon configuration and operating conditions. These figures are design objectives. The platform has not completed testing to validate them, and actual performance may differ materially from the design objectives described.
Mission configurations contemplated by VisionWave, none of which has completed integration and testing on the platform, include:
- Drone launch and recovery canisters;
- Remote weapon stations;
- Radar and RF sensing;
- ISR and optical mast systems;
- Logistics and resupply; and
- Medical, EOD, electronic warfare and route-clearance modules.
“The important concept behind STRATUM is modularity,” said Douglas Davis, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of VisionWave. “Instead of designing a new vehicle around every mission, our architecture is intended to allow the mission package to change while maintaining a common platform, logistics structure and command environment.”
Connecting Ground and Air
VisionWave is also designing its ground platforms to operate alongside tactical aerial assets.
Under the Company’s ecosystem approach, aerial systems are intended to be capable of being launched from or operating alongside ground elements, sharing a common mission picture and ultimately being tasked through the STRATUM command environment. That capability has not been demonstrated.
This architecture is intended to create a unified operating model spanning unmanned ground vehicles, aerial systems, sensors and mission intelligence.
“Our objective is not simply autonomous mobility,” Davis added. “It is autonomous mission execution—connecting mobility, sensing, aerial assets and intelligence into one operational architecture.”
The platforms, mission modules and capabilities described herein are under development, have not completed testing or qualification, are not commercially available and have not generated revenue. They remain subject to testing, evaluation, export authorization and applicable regulatory and procurement requirements, and there can be no assurance that they will be completed, will achieve their intended performance or will be adopted by any customer.
