EMC Operations Group is trying to improve our manufacturing functionality for our Sentian Class XPLORER UAS so as to meet the calls for of upper quantity orders. Now we have funding targets to fulfill in order that we are able to intensify the manufacture quantity of our low-cost strategic drone.

Now we have by no means taken fairness based mostly funding, just because so many UAS (and customarily defence based mostly) companies are overextended on VC funding. Usually what this results in is a recurring cycle of requirement to look slick and glossy in manner, model, and product.

Provided that we’ve taken no funding till now, we aren’t pressured to be pretentious in regards to the slickness of our system. It’s rugged, and with a newly refined and standardised manufacturing course of utilising the Dube-Moyo technique of design; as such we’re prepared to obtain extra. Sentian is making a transfer to the UK, combining rugged and sensible design for unbelievable operate within the South African Bushveld with precision British engineering.

XPLORER is appropriate, not distinctive, however simplicity is a profit quite than a disadvantage for our strategic system. As such, we’re trying to produce extra techniques that may function inside this parameter of simplicity, bringing far decrease price options to mining companies in Canada and Norway, Oil and Fuel prospecting companies in Niger, and pipeline inspection in Turkey and the USA. XPLORER is lengthy endurance, waypoint succesful, low price (each to buy and to function,) and VTOL module succesful making it the best substitute for various features usually carried out by helicopters or gentle plane in a business setting.

Certain, we’re getting additional concerned within the army procurement, however this primary part of funding is for these business companies (after the dealings we’ve had with African governments for counter-poaching and conservation.) Now we have the product, we’ve the market and demand, however we don’t have the funds to ship as we wish to.

When provide exceeds demand, we’ve a alternative:

-Increase capital so as to permit manufacturing to extend.
-Increase product costs so as to increase the cash ourselves.

Provided that we pleasure XPLORER on being about as cheap as techniques come for it’s class (solely about £500k for base,) we’d a lot desire to do the previous!

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