Ukrainian miltech company Huless, which produces «tethered» Highline-T drones and more familiar Highline-S UAVs, has received $1 million in funding. The funds will go, in particular, to creating a communications ecosystem with variable-height antennas.
Ukrainian miltech company Huless, which produces «tethered» Highline-T drones and more familiar Highline-S UAVs, has received $1 million in funding. The funds will go, in particular, to creating a communications ecosystem with variable-height antennas.
The funding was joined by active angel investors in the defense-tech industry and an anonymous lead investor, the company said in a press release. The amount also includes a loan from a state-owned bank under a government contract and grants from Brave1 for the development of Highline-T.
«The funding allows us to accelerate our presence on the market and create a doctrine for using communications with variable-height antennas,» noted Huless CEO Taras Semenyuk.
The company is currently creating a military communications ecosystem, where «tethered» drones act as key components of a unified network as variable-elevation antennas.
Huless positions the Highline-T as a «tethered UAV.» It can operate autonomously for 4 hours at an altitude of up to 100 m in conditions of complete absence of GPS signal. The company claims that the drone is fully resistant to electronic warfare and has a «multi-level hierarchy of failure protection» that includes backup power and an emergency parachute.
«The Highline-T complex is a variable-height antenna that provides the ability to install any type of equipment on board a UAV with the ability to power and transmit data via cable,» the company notes in a description on its website.
The complex includes a Highline-T UAV, an automated winch, a ground control station, a single-axis antenna suspension for repeater antennas, and a course camera.
Earlier, the Brave1 technology cluster reported that more than 25 teams of engineers are currently working on creating fiber-optic drones. These developments have been placed in a separate catalog.
