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Vanilla Unmanned Drops Remote Sensing Swarm UAS
Vanilla Unmanned Drops Remote Sensing Swarm UAS

Platform Aerospace’s Vanilla UAS demonstrated an air-launched swarm capability, deploying nearly 40 micro-UAS from wing-mounted stores.

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Vanilla UnmannedJanuary 30, 2023Platform Aerospace
Vanilla UAS Awarded Next Phase Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Program
Vanilla UAS Awarded Next Phase Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Program

Vanilla UAS wins next-phase contract for ASW capability development

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Vanilla UnmannedJanuary 9, 2023Platform Aerospace
Vanilla UAS Receives AvWeek Laureate Award
Vanilla UAS Receives AvWeek Laureate Award

Platform Aerospace’s Vanilla UAS has been named a winner of Aviation Week Network’s 65th Annual Laureate Awards (#AWLAUR), honoring extraordinary achievements in the global aerospace arena.

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Vanilla UnmannedAugust 10, 2022
Task & Purpose:  The Navy is eyeing a drone that can fly for a week without refueling
Task & Purpose: The Navy is eyeing a drone that can fly for a week without refueling

Task & Purpose captures Vanilla UAS in comparison to more expensive, shorter endurance UAS and how multi-day ISR capability is a key unlock for near-peer conflict.

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Vanilla UnmannedMay 17, 2022Platform Aerospace (Vanilla Unmanned)
Vanilla UAS Awarded Phase III SBIR
Vanilla UAS Awarded Phase III SBIR

Platform Aerospace was awarded a minimum 5-year Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for the Vanilla Unmanned UAS program by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

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Vanilla UnmannedMay 13, 2022
DefenseNews: This company’s drone set flight-time records. But what it really wants is more work with the Pentagon.
DefenseNews: This company’s drone set flight-time records. But what it really wants is more work with the Pentagon.

DefenseNews captures the value of a tactically-sized (and tactically priced) UAS capable of strategic, multi-day missions

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Vanilla UnmannedDecember 28, 2021Platform Aerospace (Vanilla Unmanned)
Vanilla UAS Arctic Operations:  From the Desert to the Frozen North
Vanilla UAS Arctic Operations: From the Desert to the Frozen North

Vanilla Unmanned conducted Arctic environmental monitoring operations on behalf of the NASA Goddard Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory and the University of Kansas (KU) Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS).

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Vanilla UnmannedDecember 7, 2021
Vanilla Smashes World Record:  >8 days, >12,000 miles, Comms Package
Vanilla Smashes World Record: >8 days, >12,000 miles, Comms Package

Vanilla Unmanned demonstrated 8 days, 50 minutes, and 47 seconds of continuous flight, breaking the world record for unrefueled, internal combustion endurance of an unmanned aircraft.

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Vanilla UnmannedOctober 2, 2021Platform Aerospace (Vanilla Unmanned)
Vanilla Unmanned & IMSAR Demonstrate Enhanced Surface-Search  for Group III UAS
Vanilla Unmanned & IMSAR Demonstrate Enhanced Surface-Search for Group III UAS

Vanilla Unmanned and IMSAR successfully demonstrated a Group III UAS flying both radar and Electro-Optical/Infra-Red (EO/IR) imaging simultaneously for an enhanced, long-endurance surface-search capability

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Vanilla UnmannedAugust 11, 2021Platform Aerospace (Vanilla Unmanned)
Vanilla Unmanned Awarded Non-Traditional Airborne  Anti-Submarine Warfare Contract
Vanilla Unmanned Awarded Non-Traditional Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare Contract

Project will develop Vanilla as an ASW capability that expands the search capacity of existing manned assets via Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) and provides extended on-target coverage.

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Vanilla UnmannedAugust 2, 2021Platform Aerospace (Vanilla Unmanned)
UxS IBP: Multi-Day Maritime Demonstration for Vanilla UAS
UxS IBP: Multi-Day Maritime Demonstration for Vanilla UAS

Vanilla Unmanned successfully demonstrated multi-day maritime domain awareness (MDA) operations during the Pacific Fleet’s (PACFLT) inaugural Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem (UxS IBP) in April.

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Vanilla UnmannedJune 23, 2021
DefenseNews: Small drone biz Vanilla Unmanned has big plans for the US Navy
DefenseNews: Small drone biz Vanilla Unmanned has big plans for the US Navy

Small drone biz Vanilla Unmanned has big plans for the US Navy

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Vanilla UnmannedJune 14, 2021
Vanilla Unmanned Demonstrates >3-Day BLOS ISR Capability
Vanilla Unmanned Demonstrates >3-Day BLOS ISR Capability

Vanilla Unmanned successfully demonstrated 73.5 hours (3 days, 1.5 hours) of continuous flight while providing HD EO/IR video and command & control (C2) over satellite communications (SATCOM).

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Vanilla UnmannedMarch 30, 2021
Platform Aerospace Prime Contract Award – NAVAIR NAWCAD, Vanilla UAS Digital Twin
Platform Aerospace Prime Contract Award – NAVAIR NAWCAD, Vanilla UAS Digital Twin

Platform Aerospace announces the award of a Department of the Navy (DON) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I prime contract to develop Digital Twin Technologies to Improve Mission Readiness and Sustainment.

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Vanilla UnmannedDecember 15, 2020Platform Aerospace
Vanilla Unmanned is now solely owned and operated by Platform Aerospace
Vanilla Unmanned is now solely owned and operated by Platform Aerospace

Platform Aerospace, which provides rapid aircraft and drone prototyping, modification, and systems integration, is now the sole owner and operator of Vanilla Unmanned, the world-record holding, ultra-long endurance Unmanned Aerial System (UAS).

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Vanilla UnmannedOctober 13, 2020Platform Aerospace
Vanilla Aircraft Becomes Vanilla Unmanned – New Owners
Vanilla Aircraft Becomes Vanilla Unmanned – New Owners

Platform Aerospace, which provides rapid aircraft and drone prototyping, modification, and systems integration, has established a joint venture with an unnamed partner to acquire substantially all the assets of Vanilla Aircraft, which designed and built the VA001 ultra-endurance UAS.

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Vanilla UnmannedJuly 5, 2018Platform AerospacePress Release
The VA001 breaks internal combustion USA endurance record with 5-day flight!
The VA001 breaks internal combustion USA endurance record with 5-day flight!

After five days, one hour twenty-four minutes, and traversing over 7000 miles, Vanilla Aircraft's VA001 touched down at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, successfully completing the longest unmanned internal combustion powered flight in history.

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Vanilla UnmannedOctober 26, 2017Platform Aerospace
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Vanilla Unmanned is the world-record holding Group 3 Ultra-Long Endurance UAS (ULE UAS) capable of multi-day flights with unmatched payload capacity. Vanilla Unmanned is owned and operated by Platform Aerospace.

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