Mayman Aerospace will unveil a full-scale model of Razor, its high-speed Air Utility Vehicle, during SOF Week 2024, May 6-10 in Tampa, Florida.
Razor is the name for the military variant of the dual-use, jet-powered, high-speed vertical take-off and landing (HS- VTOL) vehicle, from US-based manufacturer Mayman Aerospace. Derived from the Speeder design, the scalable Razor aircraft will be sized for payloads up to 1,000lb. Prototypes are already under construction for flight test in Q3 this year.
The 100 lb-payload Razor P100 is expected to fly first, and the 500lb-payload Razor P500 soon after. Mayman Aerospace will showcase a full-scale Razor P100 model during SOF Week 2024.
With more than US$120 million in LOI commitments from customers in Europe and Australia, plus US$3.25 million in US Department of Defense funding, Mayman Aerospace has been expanding its experienced engineering team while ramping up for flight testing.
In an exclusive conversation, David Mayman, CEO and founder of Mayman Aerospace told UAS VISION:
“At Mayman Aerospace we are changing the rules of autonomous flight. As a software led aerospace company, we are driving current available technology to performance specs never before possible or even imagined.
If you think about what can be accomplished with an autonomous VTOL aircraft just over 6′ long that can carry a payload of 1,000 pounds at speeds approaching Mach 0.8! the applications are multiple; for example, medical deliveries from New York to Boston, Los Angeles to San Francisco, London to Paris in under half an hour; or Disaster relief supplies reaching survivors in minutes; or suppress wildland fires as soon as hotspots are identified.
The Razor will also enable battlefield mass superiority that our warfighter could only have wished for previously. Those formerly impossible levels of performance are exactly what our Razor class of VTOL aircraft will deliver. And it is only a matter of scaling up our current Razor P100 for us to amplify these capabilities and opportunities. The potential is immense.”
Razor fulfils disparate missions in an era where real-world battlefield requirements are rapidly evolving. The need for combat mass through multiple, highly capable, low-cost, and attritable platforms is rapidly emerging. Razor’s low cost, jet speed, and VTOL versatility make it uniquely suitable for the next-generation battlespace.
Easily transported for mass launch in the field, from ships, or the air, Razor may be configured for contested logistics, armed with Hellfire or Brimstone missiles as a range extender for precision attack, flown as a low-cost cruise missile, or equipped with advanced sensors for ISTAR, electronic warfare, and the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD). The aircraft will also be used as a high-speed, low-cost target drone, requiring no special launch infrastructure for air- to-air and air defense training.
Mayman Aerospace will be in the BlackHays Group booth #4802 in the JW Marriott Hotel Small Business Conference Room
Source: Press Release