• Endurance: 25–40 minutes @ MSL.
• Range (LoS): 2–4 km.
• Weight: < 3.5 kg.
• Wind Resistance: Up to 20 knots or 36 km/h.
• Max Operating Altitude: Up to 400 m AGL.
• Max Launch Altitude: 3000 m AMSL.
• Vehicle Size: < 1 m x 1 m.

Operational Characteristics:

• Launch & Recovery- Autonomous Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL)
• Maximum space required for recovery: 25mX25m open area

Flight Modes:

• Fully autonomous from Take-Off to Landing without using any R/C controller.
• Altitude hold.
• Autonomous waypoint navigation (pre-defined as well as dynamically adjustable waypoints during flight times).

Deployment time (from fully packed state to UAV Taker –Off): <10 minutes.

Packing Time (after UAV landing to fully packed state): <10 minutes.

Fail Safe Features:

• Return to home on communication failure.
• Return to Home/Land on low battery.
• Multiple GPS on-board for GPS failure redundancy.
• High wind indication.

Packaging and Storage: Hard case for transportation and storage.

Operating crew: Maximum 2.

Communication Link Characteristics:

• Transmit control commands from GCS to UAV.
• Transmit telemetry data from UAV to GCS.

Frequency Band: 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz.

Ground Control Station Characteristics:

• Laptop (Windows OS with Bluefire patented software).
• GUI Display Parameters: Geographic map along with UAV location, UAV trajectory, camera view polygon, waypoints and Flight plans.
• Artificial Horizon indicating UAV altitude.

Maps:

• Capability to works with Google maps and/or other available open source maps. Application should have
  the capability to download maps automatically after specifying the location GPS co-ordinates.
• Capability to integrate geo-referenced raster maps provided in at least one of the commonly used digital maps format. (gif, tiff etc.).

User Controls:

• One click Take-Off/Land/Hover.
• Set altitude of UAV.
• Waypoint navigation.
• Dynamic flight plan adjustment.
• Point payload to ground co-ordinate function.

Joystick control:

• RPV mode.
• Altitude control.

Pre Flight checks: Capability to perform pre-flight checks of the complete system before every flight for confirming the suitability of flight worthiness.

Payload: 

• Thermal Payload (Black/White hot): 320 x 240 pixels, 640 × 480 pixels (Optional).
• Thermal Payload: 640 × 480 pixels (Radiometric).

• UAV Weight with battery and standard payloads- < 2 Kg
• UAV Size with Propeller – < 1m x 1m
• Endurance/ Flight time (up to 1000m AMSL) – 20-25 minutes with Payload(s)
• Range for live transmission (Radius) – 2 km
• Typical Cruise Speed- 7 m/s
• Operating Altitude (AGL) – 200m AGL (Above Ground Level)
• Maximum Launch Altitude- 3000m AMSL (Above Mean Sea Level)
• Functional Temperature Range- 0°C to +40°C
• Wind Resistance – Minimum 12.5m/s (45kmph or 24.3knots).

Failsafe features:

• Return to Home on communication failure.
• Return to Home/Land on low battery or battery issues.
• Return to Home/Land on low battery or battery issues.
• Return to home on high winds (more than 12.5m/s).
• Multiple GPS on-board for GPS failure redundancy.

Autonomy: Fully autonomous from Take-off to Landing without using an R/C controller.

Payload Characteristics: HD (1280X720)/ Thermal 320X240p

Ground Control Station (GCs) Software Features:

Flight Modes–

• Altitude Hold.
• Hover at a defined waypoint.
• Autonomous Waypoint Navigation (pre-defined as well as dynamically adjustable waypoints during flight).
• Remotely Piloted mode for video-based navigation (RPV Mode).

• Real-time Target Tracking of designated static and moving targets (Optional).

GUI Display Parameters:

• Geographic Map along with UAV location, UAV trajectory, camera view polygon, waypoints & flight plan.
• Real-time video from the UAV with on-screen display of important parameters like UAV co-ordinates, target (payload) co-ordinates and range from UAV, true North indication, Distance from HOME, etc.
• Real-time video displayed at all times during the flight.
  
• Artificial Horizon indicating UAV attitude.

Maps:

• Capability of working with Google Maps and/or other available open-source maps.
  Application has the capability to download maps automatically after specifying location GPS co-ordinates.
• Capability to integrate geo-referenced raster maps provided in at least one of the commonly used digital.
• Map formats (gif, tiff etc.).

User Controls:

• One-click Take-off/Land/Hover.
• Set altitude of the UAV.

Joystick Controls:

• Waypoint navigation.
• Dynamic flight plan adjustment.
• Point payload to ground co-ordinate function.
• RPV Mode which allows UAV to be flown in semi- autonomous mode by looking at the on-board video.
• Full camera controls Pan/Tilt & Zoom In & Out.
• RPV mode.
• Altitude control.

Video: 

• Video recorded in commonly portable video format (AVI/MP4 etc.) on the GCS. The UAV does not do any on-board recording.
• Video of the full flight is recorded by default with option to turn recording off.
• Capability of taking image snapshots with on- screen display parameters at any time during flight.

Pre-flights checks: Capability to perform pre-flight checks of the complete system before every flight for confirming the suitability of flightworthiness.

Communication link characteristics:

• Secure Communication link between UAV and GCS with minimum 128bit encryption.
• Frequency band- 2.4GHz or 5GHz up-link and down-link.