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Shield AI V-BAT
V-BAT
“The drone that stands on its tail.”
Shield AI · drone
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Length
9 ft 0 in
Wingspan
9 ft 7 in
Max speed
90 kts
Range
300 nmi
Ceiling
20,000 ft
Engines
1x two-stroke engine driving a ducted fan
Crew
0
Shield AI's V-BAT takes off and lands balanced vertically on a single ducted fan, then tips over and flies like a plane. No runway, no launcher, no net — it fits in a pickup truck and sets itself up in minutes.
Fun fact
The V-BAT can fly missions with no GPS and no radio link — its onboard AI pilot navigates by looking at the ground below.
How to spot one
Looks like a flying propane tank with wings: fat cylindrical body, long thin wings, ducted fan at the tail. If it's hovering nose-up, you're watching a launch or recovery.
Sounds like
A lawnmower-pitched two-stroke buzz from the ducted fan — louder than you'd expect for something this small
One might be overhead right now.
Bogey turns the V-BAT from a dot in the sky into a card in your logbook. Coming to iOS and Android.
Get Bogey