UAS100 long-range drone

For ground surveillance and inspection

Surveillance and intelligence
Civil Aviation
Civil UAVs

The UAS100 long range drone draws from Thales’s considerable expertise in aerospace technology, making it the best solution for many applications such as coastal & border surveillance, law enforcement security, linear infrastructure, windmill, offshore wind turbines and pipeline inspections.

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FORCES

Long-Range BVLOS Drone

UAS100 enables safe, autonomous BVLOS operations over 200 km. Ideal for border patrol, infrastructure inspection, and environmental monitoring, it replaces costly aircraft with a high-endurance, low-emission, hybrid-powered UAV solution.
Multi-Mission Versatility

With a 10 kg payload capacity, UAS100 supports optronic turrets, radar, LiDAR, gas sensors, and more. It adapts to diverse missions from coastal surveillance to wind turbine inspection, delivering high-performance data collection and analysis.
Cyber-Secure Ops Station

Thales’s ground control station enables one-operator drone missions with real-time route updates, auto safety checks, and secured cloud data. It ensures efficient, cyber-protected drone control with advanced analytics for live monitoring.

The UAS100 meets the most stringent mission requirements in full compliance with general aviation BVLOS regulations. Its flight avionics combine the certified levels of flight safety and security that Thales offers to the traditional aviation sector with the low weight and compact design needed to integrate for integration on board small drones.

BVLOS long range drone for multiple applications

The UAS100 is optimised for long range BVLOS operations, and is ideal for drone inspection, surveillance and reconnaissance tasks. It provides that eye-in-the-sky capability that is a real game changer for such activities. Among its many benefits, the UAS100 decreases human workload, reduces overall life cycle, cost and significantly saves time.

Employed as security UAV, the UAS100 offers a perfect alternative to surveillance tasks, such as border patrol or coastal monitoring, by replacing helicopters or fixed wing aircraft often more complex and expensive to operate.

Providing a birds-eye view, drones in agriculture help preserving sensitive areas such as forest, national parks and livestock monitoring, sometimes difficult to reach or requiring extensive area to cover.

Aerial drones are key enablers for global ecological transition. Considering global warming, it is our duty to reduce fuel consumption and Thales is committed to positively contribute to global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and improve our future.

Thales’s UAS100 drone has a multi-payload capacity. It can be equipped with optronic turret, day/night vision, thermal vision, communication relay, RADAR, LIDAR, gas sensor, trunk or additional fuel tank.

FEATURES

As a long range drone the UAS100, can fly up to 200 linear kilometers. It is equipped with a hybrid propulsion system, allowing discretion, limited carbon footprint and resilience to failures. It incorporates avionics that combine the safety of certified aeronautical solutions with the lightness and compactness required for a drone. Thales & EASA are working jointly to unlock long range drone challenges, to operate autonomous operations over population (SAIL V and up).

The UAS100 system offers range capabilities with its jam-resistant navigation system, enabling safe operation even in dense or cluttered electromagnetic environments. Powered by two electric motors as well as an internal combustion engine, the UAS100 operates discretely over populated areas and achieves the necessary endurance and resilience to failure.

The UAS 100 is a drone solution that fulfils the necessary reliability criteria for conducting missions under these conditions:

Conducting flights beyond visual line of sight, including overflight of densely populated areas.
Possessing long range capabilities and extended endurance.
Demonstrating a high level of autonomous decision-making during flight.

5 Mains use cases targeted:

Industrial inspection & Maintenance
Natural environment
Observation
Search & rescue
Security

UAV ground control station

The drone station requires only one supervisor, reducing crew mobilization and workload. Real-time updates and automatic safety checks (weather, obstacles, no-fly zones) ensure mission success. Data is securely stored in a private cloud.

Thales’s ground control station enables cyber-secured remote mission preparation and flight control. Operators can plan optimized routes, load predefined patterns, and run automatic compliance checks.

During flight, one supervisor handles safe operations via high-integrity flight interfaces, warnings, and recovery functions.

Payload control and live mission monitoring are secured with Thales's cybersecurity expertise and advanced data analytics.