GoldenEye 100

The GoldenEye 100 UAV is a VTOL aircraft specifically designed for low-cost, clandestine RSTA (reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition) missions. Among GoldenEye 100's many features that enhance mission flexibility, survivability, and stealth are reduced infrared and acoustic signatures, fully autonomous day/night operational capability and ample tactical-level endurance at airspeeds ranging from hover to 160 knots.

GoldenEye 100 bridges the flight envelopes of conventional winged aircraft and rotorcraft. Innovative technologies incorporated into the GoldenEye 100 include torsionally disconnected wings, a long duct, three-dimensional thrust vectoring and an advanced flight control system.

The GoldenEye 100's high-impact-shock landing gear configuration makes the vehicle easy to deploy and recover in highly unstructured terrain. The aircraft's advanced integrated flight control unit from Athena Technologies ensures precise vehicle control and mission plan execution even in the most challenging of environments including urban operations, use by forward-deployed units and naval missions.

GoldenEye 100 was developed for DARPA under the clandestine UAV program using a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract.