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Unmanned Systems

Volansi Demonstrates Fully Autonomous Drone Delivery with Navy and Coast Guard

Kelsey Reichmann

Monday, August 9th, 2021

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Volansi Demonstrates Fully Autonomous Drone Delivery with Navy and Coast Guard

Volansi's VOLY 10 drone completing an autonomous delivery during a demonstration with the Navy. (Volansi)

The Silicon Valley drone delivery company Volansi completed the first-ever completely autonomous maritime drone delivery demonstration with the Navy and Coast Guard on July 18 near Key West, Fla., Will Roper, Volansi CEO, told Defense Daily. The demonstrations, which were publicly disclosed on Aug. 2, consisted of three flights of the company’s VOLY 10 and 20 Series unmanned aircraft and were completed 20 nautical miles offshore. Two of the flights used the VOLY 10 aircraft, which is 7 feet long…

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