Orca
Product descripton: Orca by Skip Dynamics
Made in the USA
Orca is fabricated and assembled in the USA using components made in the USA or non-covered sources.
Made to order
Orca can be delivered as an empty ready to fly airframe or customized as required, from one copy to thousands.
Easy to Salvo
Launch one, launch many…homogenous, heterogeneous salvos.
Example: A 2-person crew, from a small SUV or boat, can launch a 6-Orca salvo in less than 5 minutes from first box opened on to last plane airborne, with the first plane launched to last plane airborne in less than 1 minute.
Designed for the “Incidental Operator”
Every Orca is made to be operated with minimum training. Orca can be launched by hand, via a bungee launcher, or short-stroke mechanical launcher. Orca innately can fly from launch to landing without human input.
Go anywhere
Each Orca is packaged in airline compliant transport cases made to withstand all modes of travel.
Technical specifications
Multi-mission
Operators define Orca’s mission. Here are some examples:
Reconnaissance
- Payload – 1 kg sensor + radios
- Endurance 4 hours
Payload delivery
- Payload – 5kg warhead + seeker
- Range – 60 km
Electronic Warfare
- Payload – 0.5 kg emitter
- Endurance – 4 hours
MESH Node
- Payload – 0.25 kg radio
- Endurance – 4 hours
Decoy/Target/Surrogate
- Endurance – 4 + hours
Fixed-wing
- Twice the endurance/range of a comparable hybrid sUAS
- 4 X the speed, endurance/range of a comparable copter sUAS
| Cruise speed | 65 kph |
| Endurance | 1 hour per kg of battery |
| Battery sizes | 1 kg, 2kg, 5kg |
| Empty weight | 3 kg |
| Maximum hand launch weight | 8 kg |
| Maximum assisted launch weight | 10 kg |
| Fuselage diameter | 150 mm |
| Time from box to sky | 2 minutes |