Our advanced onboard software ensures precise, reliable and resilient navigation in hostile environments, including GNSS-denied, jammed, or spoofed battlefield scenarios, even when communications or a C2 link is lost. The system enables fully autonomous operation beyond radio range, ensuring mission continuity and success.
We have developed an open, agnostic and interoperable architecture designed for seamless integration within NATO operational environments, fully aligned with standards such as STANAG 4586. Our system enables external control through a master control architecture. By combining standardized interfaces with a modular design, we deliver resilient, certifiable systems that support joint operations and multi-domain integration essential for the future of European and NATO defense collaboration.
Our flight control system enables bullseye precision through advanced strike modes, Optical Terminal Guidance, and 4D-trajectory control. Compatible with external seekers and EO/IR payloads, it supports autonomous target detection and navigation. Real-time sensor fusion and an enhanced HUD overlay targeting data on live video, boosting situational awareness and enabling accurate ISR, tracking, and landing. This empowers the Human-in-the-Loop with intuitive, actionable insights—ensuring fast, informed decisions while maintaining full operator control.
Our flight control solution enables real-time, adaptable swarm operations with multiple UAVs flying in coordinated formations. Platforms autonomously adopt tactical patterns like the flying wedge for breakthroughs or the fighting wing for support, decoy maneuvers, and dynamic threat engagement. Designed for complex missions, our autopilots support Cross-Domain operations (e.g., UAV–USV) and act as remote carriers in Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUT).
UAV Navigation–Grupo Oesía provides cutting-edge flight control solutions for loitering munitions and UAVs launched in the most demanding conditions. Our systems support high-precision, autonomous deployment from airborne platforms or mothership aircraft, hydraulic or pneumatic catapults, or rocket-assisted take-off (RATO) systems, tolerating up to 25G. With portable and airborne command stations, seamless GCS handover, and full MUM-T mission integration, our technology ensures flexible, reliable control for rapid-response UAV operations in any environment.
UAV Navigation–Grupo Oesía has partnered with leading manufacturers of loitering munitions platforms, which demand highly reliable and advanced autopilots to support complex and precise flight profiles.
Loitering munitions are not reckless or suicidal unmanned systems—often inaccurately referred to as kamikaze drones. Instead, they are designed for surgical strikes, delivering lethal effects with precision and minimal collateral damage. Unlike reusable combat UAVs, loitering munitions are expendable assets that patrol the battlefield, identify targets, and engage with accuracy, making them a critical tool in modern military operations.
We offer a complete flight control solution that integrates all essential avionics into a compact, lightweight autopilot. Designed to support a wide range of loitering munitions —from piston-engine systems to high-speed turbine-powered UAVs—our solution includes a Ground Control Station that is fully compatible with range telemetry systems.
The VECTOR autopilots manage all critical flight phases, including fully automatic catapult launch and rocket-assisted take-off. They offer advanced in-flight capabilities such as 4D-trajectory planning to engage targets within specific time windows, referenced navigation to pseudo-mobile targets, and sense-and-avoid functionality with automatic replanning to counter defensive countermeasures like jammers, spoofers, or interceptor UAS.
The system also enables advanced UAV missions, including swarm operations, coordinated flight missions, and Manned-Unmanned Teaming. It supports fully autonomous mission execution, even in the event of datalink or GNSS loss—an essential feature in hostile environments.
Our VECTOR autopilots are certified to MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461, ensuring reliable performance under the harshest environmental and electromagnetic conditions. UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía’s in-house Hardware-In-the-Loop simulators enable tailored software development optimized for each specific platform.
With thousands of units produced in recent years at our state-of-the-art facilities, we are fully prepared to meet large-scale production demands. Our internal procedures ensure precision and consistency, with each unit individually calibrated, validated, and traceable, delivering military-grade flight control systems at scale without compromising on quality.
Additionally, the autopilot interfaces with advanced payloads such as radar altimeters, supporting functions like high-speed sea-skimming flying just feet above the surface with precise altitude control.
Other Special Features for Loitering Munitions
- Reference Navigation. The aircraft's onboard guidance, navigation and control system must be capable of adjusting the coordinates of the tracked target in real time in order to neutralize it. This allows the flight plan to be updated automatically, ensuring precise navigation while tracking a moving target. This feature is particularly important in missions to intercept other UAS.
- Automatic, highly dynamic evasive maneuvers. The ability to perform evasive maneuvers that allow these aircraft to respond adaptively to potential countermeasures is essential to mission success. Having a guidance, navigation and control system capable of automatically executing these highly dynamic maneuvers or other special maneuvers, such as flying at very low altitude to avoid detection by potential countermeasures, can be crucial to successfully completing the mission.
- 4D Trajectory. It is possible to select the exact time at which the autopilot must arrive at a specific waypoint. Moreover, in multi-UAV operations, the aircraft can be coordinated to fly at a specific time apart from each other. Additionally, multiple UAS can be synchronized to reach a waypoint simultaneously to accomplish missions with multidisciplinary demands.
- Multi-UAV & Multi-GCS Operations. The UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía solution allows the flying of several UAVs, or it can detect commands received from more than one GCS simultaneously. This can be done in different configurations: one operator controlling multiple UAVs or several operators controlling multiple UAVs, which eases the execution of handover maneuvers.
- Geofencing. The operator can define fixed or moving No-Fly Zones (NFZ)/Exclusion zone over those areas that the UAV cannot overfly. If the UAT route is supposed to intersect the NFZ, the autopilot will notify the operator and automatically re-plan the mission to reach the objective using an alternative path or execute automatic actions such as: enter loitering or deploy the parachute.
- Sea operations. The autopilot has been extensively tested in sea environments. Operation using moving flight plans (i.e. GCS onboard a ship) or landing sites are possible. The system may be configured to work with a GCS in motion.
- Built in capability to add third party telemetry to the autopilot's data stream.
- User defined flying envelope. The flight envelope may be configured in accordance with client requirements.
- Compatible with most of the datalinks available in the market.
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