Shield AI's V-BAT proves cold weather capabilities in NATO's arena HEIMDALL exercise
Evidence notes
- V-BAT completed ship- and land-based vertical take-off and landing missions during NATO HEIMDALL 26 in Norway.
- Day and night sorties used electro-optical, infrared and synthetic-aperture-radar payloads without aircraft configuration changes.
- The aircraft fed ISR data into multinational command-and-control systems over multiple frequency bands.
Company context
Shield AI builds autonomy software and unmanned aircraft systems for defence and allied operations. Its stack includes the Hivemind autonomy platform and aircraft such as V-BAT and X-BAT. The company focuses on autonomous mission execution in contested and degraded environments.