UAV Navigation, a subsidiary of Spanish defense firm Grupo Oesía, has launched the VECTOR-300 flight control computer for unmanned aerial vehicles. The system builds on the companys established VECTOR series, incorporating advanced inertial navigation capabilities tailored for demanding UAV operations.
The VECTOR-300 integrates a proprietary Air Data Attitude Heading Reference System (AD-AHRS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS), delivering precision attitude data with roll and pitch errors below 0.5 degrees and heading error under 1 degree. It achieves horizontal position accuracy of 2.0 meters CEP when GNSS is available and maintains navigation drift below 30 meters per minute in GNSS-denied environments.
Designed for robustness, the unit supports unrestricted roll, pitch, and yaw ranges, with accelerometer limits of ±8 g and gyro ranges of ±300 degrees per second across all axes. It features a 72-channel multi-constellation GNSS receiver compatible with GPS, GLONAS, Galileo, BeiDou, and SBAS, achieving cold start time-to-first-fix in 26 seconds.
Grupo Oésias UAV Navigation division has previously demonstrated the VECTOR autopilots endurance, with flights exceeding 300 kilometers using UHF datalinks. The company has also partnered with JetCat to integrate P300 PRO turbines and collaborates with the European Space Agency on resilient LEO-PNT navigation solutions.
This launch occurs amid heightened scrutiny, as Russia has listed Grupo Oesía as a potential military target for supplying navigation systems used in Ukrainian drones.