Lockheed Martin Fury 1500

History of the Lockheed Martin Fury 1500

Lockheed Martin has made a name for itself in the defense industry since World War II. Today, the brand touches every aspect of the battlefield, including conventional weapons, systems and space technology.

With the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry on the rise, the company joins other defense industry players to offer customers around the world a wide variety of drone options for virtually any mission role. The Fury 1500 represents a relatively new contribution to the field, marketed as a durable unmanned aerial system (UAS), combining industry-proven expertise, low-signature design quality, and intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance (ISR) and intelligence-/electronic warfare (IEW) roles.

The Fury 1500 has a 15-hour endurance window, providing ground commanders with much-needed long-range capabilities at both a strategic and tactical level. Its special design reduces traditional acoustic levels as well as the visual signature presented to enemy forces, giving the aircraft a smooth, streamlined profile - a kind of flying wing that mimics the game's lack of vertical tail surfaces. Most of the major components are housed in the hybrid fuselage bulge, and the optics hang under the belly for unobstructed views below the fuselage.

A single engine powered three-bladed propellers in a "thrust" arrangement mounted on the rear of the aircraft. Its mission payload can be configured to meet mission requirements, extending the product's tactical value in the theater. Unlike other large UAS vehicles, the Fury 1500 does not require a runway - it is launched via a catapult and recovered via a networked system.

This allows vehicles to be launched and recovered from the battlefield or warship deck.

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