Albatross
Ship-launched amphibious autonomous drone — fuses a sea-and-air picture.
Albatross is the merge made airframe. An amphibious autonomous drone that launches and recovers from a Segal research or logistics hull, triples the vessel's survey footprint, and feeds one fused sea-and-air picture back to the bridge.
It flies the Vector stack and reports into the same operations picture as the naval Tideline terminal, so a single watch-stander holds a hull, its boats, and its air asset in one view.
Roadmap, and marked honestly — Albatross is the reference architecture for cross-domain operations, the airframe that makes a Segal hull and a Segal airframe one coordinated system.
Launches from a Shipyards research hull (e.g. Sounding), tripling its survey footprint.
// BASE SPECIFICATIONS
- Span
- 6 m
- Length
- 5 m
- Lift system
- Hybrid-electric, amphibious
- Base payload
- 120 kg
- Base range
- 600 km
- Endurance
- 14 h
- Crew
- 0
Roadmap — co-developed with Segal Shipyards.
// CONFIGURABLE OPTIONS
Mission profiles
- ISRSea-and-air survey extension.
- LogisticsShip-to-shore micro-resupply.
Lift / propulsion
- Hybrid-electricAmphibious launch and recovery.
Payload modules
- Maritime sensor podEO/IR + surface-search.
- Micro-cargo baySmall ship-to-shore payload.
Endurance / range tiers
- Standard — 14h
- Extended — 20h
Sensor / comms packages
- EO/IR
- Fused hull datalink
Autonomy modes
- CrewlessNo onboard crew on a standard sortie — Vector resolves its own airspace.
- SupervisedSingle-command human oversight from the ground.