Updated on 30 April 2025
Airships for defence & security
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Let's talk about Airships (Zeppelins).
Flying costs per hour of fixed and rotary wing type of air vehicles are around US$ 10.000 - 20.000.
Flying cost per hour of Airships is around US$ 1.000.
One step further : All Electrical Airships, zero emission.
THE USAGE AREAS of AIRSHIPS: ISR (border security, environment control, city security, natural disasters, pipelines security …), Swarming Attack Drones & Reusing Them, Entertainment (flying yacht or flying hotel), Stratospheric Airship project. Do we need satellites anymore?
PHASE 1 : Proof of concept period . This period has been completed with the test flights and the patent was granted (: "A MODULAR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE _ TR 2011 03453 B” ). Composite design, Modular, 2 Electrical motors, Zero emission, ...
PHASE 2: Design and production periods of the products KUZGUN_5 Unmanned Airship and KUZGUN_A5 Tethered Airship (Endurance : 7 -14 days). The budget of KUZGUN_5 & KUZGUN_A5 is around US$ 3 million. We are looking for investment or direct partnership. (We have a series of Airship concepts with different dimensions. KUZGUN_5 & KUZGUN_A5 are just an example of one of our Airship projects).
PHASE 3: Design and production periods of Airships for touristic purposes (flying hotel or blue voyage in the sky).
PHASE 4: Design and production periods of Airships for swarming of UAVs.
PHASE 5: Design and production periods of Airships with higher altitudes. I mean Airships which will operate for reconnaissance _surveillance purposes in the Stratosphere. You may know that Thales (Stratobus), DARPA and Lockheed Martin have been working on stratospheric Airship applications.
It will be very hard to execute the Phases 3,4,5,6 ... in Turkey for many reasons. So we should think of setting up a new company in a developed country.
Our Offer : Our product can easily be scalable. If we can find an investor we can complete Phase 2 in 2 years. We should work with universities, R&D centers and aerospace companies very closely or under their supervision to complete Phase 3, 4, 5, 6, ...
We'd like to learn your offer. We are open all kind of ideas.
Stage
- Execution - Development stage (preparation)
Topic
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-BM-01: Open topic on efficient border surveillance and maritime security
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-BM-02: Open topic on secured and facilitated crossing of external borders
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-01: Open topic on citizen and regional and/or local authorities' engagement in enhanced disaster risk awareness, including education, and preparedness
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-02: Open topic on Improving disaster risk management and governance to ensure self-sufficiency and sustainability of operations in support of enhanced resilience
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-03: Open topic on testing / validating tools, technologies and data used in cross-border prevention, preparedness and responses to climate extreme and geological events and chemical, biological or radiological emergency threats
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-04: Advancing autonomous systems and robotics for high-risk disaster response, strengthening disaster resilience in conflict-afflicted crisis zones
Call
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-BM - BORDER MANAGEMENT
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-DRS - DISASTER RESILIENT SOCIETY
Type
- Research and Innovation Action
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Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
Projects in Robotics for Disaster scenarios or Border Surveillance
- Early - Idea stage
- Research and Innovation Action
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-BM - BORDER MANAGEMENT
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-DRS - DISASTER RESILIENT SOCIETY
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-BM-01: Open topic on efficient border surveillance and maritime security
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-04: Advancing autonomous systems and robotics for high-risk disaster response, strengthening disaster resilience in conflict-afflicted crisis zones
JORDI ROMERO MORA
Co-Founder & CEO at NABLA VISION SL
GAVA, Spain
Project cooperation
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-BM - BORDER MANAGEMENT
- Execution - Development stage (preparation)
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-INFRA - RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-DRS - DISASTER RESILIENT SOCIETY
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-BM-01: Open topic on efficient border surveillance and maritime security
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-INFRA-01: Open topic for improved preparedness for, response to and recovery from large-scale disruptions of critical infrastructures
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-04: Advancing autonomous systems and robotics for high-risk disaster response, strengthening disaster resilience in conflict-afflicted crisis zones
David Pinto Fernández
CEO at EONSEA
Sevilla, Spain
Project cooperation
Airborne chemical detection, identification and monitoring
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-BM - BORDER MANAGEMENT
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-INFRA - RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-DRS - DISASTER RESILIENT SOCIETY
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-FCT - FIGHTING CRIME AND TERRORISM
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-BM-02: Open topic on secured and facilitated crossing of external borders
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-FCT-01: Open topic on modern information and forensic evidence analysis and on frontline policing
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-INFRA-02: Open topic for role of the human factor for the resilience of critical infrastructures
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-01: Open topic on citizen and regional and/or local authorities' engagement in enhanced disaster risk awareness, including education, and preparedness
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-FCT-02: Open topic on prevention, detection and deterrence of various forms of crime and terrorism through an enhanced understanding of the related societal issues
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-02: Open topic on Improving disaster risk management and governance to ensure self-sufficiency and sustainability of operations in support of enhanced resilience
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-03: Open topic on testing / validating tools, technologies and data used in cross-border prevention, preparedness and responses to climate extreme and geological events and chemical, biological or radiological emergency threats
George Pallis
Research & Innovation Director at T4i engineering
Athens, Greece