Takes off like a quadrotor, flies like an airplane
Four lift rotors raise the aircraft straight up. Once it is flying fast enough, the wing carries it and a single pusher propeller drives it forward.
Fixed-wing VTOL UAS
MASID-1
Multi-mission Aerial Surveillance and Intelligence Drone
A fixed-wing uncrewed aircraft for reconnaissance that takes off and lands vertically, developed for Philippine defense.
Airframe
The structure that carries every load. In forward flight the wing lifts the aircraft.
Lift rotors
Four lift rotors raise the aircraft vertically and hold it in a hover. They are typically not operated during cruise.
Cruise propulsion
A pusher propeller drives the aircraft in forward flight.
Power
Stores energy and delivers it to the motors, the payload, and the avionics.
Flight control
Facilitates transition to wing-borne flight, and allows control during cruise and loiter.
Communications
Carries commands to the aircraft, and telemetry and video back to the GCS, within line of sight.
Payload
A stabilized ISR sensor gives the operator a steady view of the ground. Modular design allows for swapping different payloads.
Packs into a case, flies in minutes
The wings, booms, and tail come off, so the aircraft travels in one hard case with its ISR payload and the GCS. At the site it goes back together and is ready to fly in minutes.
Flies autonomously and safely
The operator picks a location using the GCS. The aircraft flies there on its own and circles overhead, keeping the area below in view, anywhere within line of sight of the GCS.
Click or tap the map, or pick a place.
The aircraft is drawn larger than scale and the flight is sped up.
General specifications
- Configuration
- Fixed-wing VTOL: four lift rotors and a pusher propeller
- Role
- Short-range intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
- Launch and recovery
- Vertical, from confined terrain; no runway
- Range
- 20 km, line of sight
- Endurance
- 50 min minimum
- System weight
- Under 15 kg, aircraft and GCS together
- Maximum payload
- 1.5 kg
- Payload
- Stabilized ISR sensor
- Ground control
- Man-portable GCS
- Operating conditions
- 10–50 °C; moderate rain; launch and recovery in winds up to 15 km/h
- Ceiling
- 3,600 m above sea level
- Status
- In development
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