Brazilian engine and aircraft manufacturer TUPAN says their engines' most important application is cargo transportation.
Tupan is an aeronautical company specialized in HSVSTOL (High Speed, Vertical and Short Take Off and Landing) aircraft. Tupan works with another fellow Brazilian company Turbomachine which provides the engines for Tupan's UAVs.
Paulo Cesar Olenscki, Chief Technology Officer at TUPAN told Defensehere several countries had shown interest in their cargo drone series. He said "It would be very interesting to have investors in Turkish. We are hoping to manufacture this aircraft to transfer technology to Turkey. It's very welcome. And I think Brazil and Turkey, they have a very good relationship, and it would be easy to have this technology transfer and partnership. And we are open also as well to transferring technology on the engine manufacturing because it's this parent companies."
"We manufacture the engines for ourselves so we can design one aircraft, one drone using our own engine, and we can design the engine for the aircraft instead of the opposite. Where you looking for in the market, the engine to adapt it to your aircraft so we can design like we can customize the engine for the different version of the aircraft that we produce."
"For the civilian market there are several applications. The most important application is cargo transportation. We have different versions for this aircraft. We have TUPAN 1000 that can carry about 125 KG of our payload. And then we have the [TUPAN] 2000 that has a maximum takeoff weight of 2,000 pounds and a payload of 220 kilos and TUPAN 3000 that has a payload of 400 kilo about that and maximum takeoff weight is 3,000 pounds."
"So, the cargo transportation, the civilian market is very important. It also can be to make liaison between the offshore platforms and, and the land. We also foresee a market, in firefighting using extinguish balls that we can have or let's see an array. Several drones fly at the same time and to fight fire in certain area without risking people live in the firefighting."
