Hanwha Systems is participating for the first time in the Farnborough Air Show in the UK, the world’s largest aviation and defense exhibition, and is seeking to pioneer sales channels in the global UAM, aerospace, and advanced defense markets.
Hanwha Systems will set up a large booth measuring 30㎡ (approximately 70 pyeong) at the ‘Farnborough Air Show 2022’, which will be held in Hampshire County near London, England for five days from the 18th to the 22nd, and will provide ground and air traffic through two zones, UAM and defense industry. It will showcase hyper-connectivity, hyper-intelligence, and hyper-convergence technologies and business capabilities that connect the air and space.
The Farnborough Air Show is considered one of the world’s top three air shows, along with the Paris and Singapore Air Shows, and is held in July of even-numbered years. This year, the 2020 event was canceled due to the spread of the coronavirus, so it will be held for the first time in four years, and 1,500 global companies and organizations from home and abroad will participate and more than 80,000 people are expected to visit.
In the UAM area, Hanwha Systems will unveil for the first time a mock-up of the full-size rotor (large rotary blade) of the ‘Butterfly’ aircraft, which is being jointly developed with Overair of the United States. The rotor with three blades (propellers) has a diameter of 6 m and a height of 6 m.
At this event, Hanwha Systems will demonstrate how the motor inside the rotor operates as an ‘electric propulsion system’. We will also introduce the OSTR (Optimum Speed Tiltrotor) patent, which realizes the safety, efficiency, speed, low noise, and eco-friendliness of the butterfly aircraft, as well as the ‘IBC (Individual Blade Control)’ technology, an active vibration reduction technology that improves safety through individual blade control. .
Butterfly deploys four tilt rotors (vertical takeoff and landing propeller operation system) implemented with OSTR and IBC technology on the front and rear wings, so even if one rotor fails, safe flight is possible with only the remaining rotor.
Hanwha Systems plans to produce a full-size unmanned prototype in the first half of 2023 along with Overair.
In the defense industry zone, Hanwha Systems’ ultra-small SAR satellite, which has been reduced in size and maximized cost-effectiveness in the form of a thin rectangular parallelepiped, will be introduced. Electronic antennas for low-orbit satellite (LEO) communications that enable the establishment of a stable ‘Space Internet’ communications network will also be exhibited.
In addition, AESA radar technology mounted on the Korean fighter (KF-21) and anti-aircraft defense systems such as the Cheongung-II multi-function radar (MFR), which was the main export to the K-defense industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in January, and the long-range surface-to-air guided weapon system MFR will be introduced. .
In particular, it plans to showcase cutting-edge defense products such as DIRCM (Directional Infrared Jamming Equipment), an aircraft survival equipment developed for the first time in Korea and the sixth in the world following the US, UK, and Israel.
Seong-cheol Eo, CEO of Hanwha Systems, said, “At this air show, we will inform the global market of Hanwha Systems’ technological competitiveness that will lead innovation in the aerospace industry and change the future mobility paradigm.”
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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