Milipol Paris 2019: CNIM Air Space presents a complete range of tethered aerostats, dedicated to long-term surveillance and communication missions.

CNIM Air Space, formerly Airstar Aerospace, joined the CNIM Group in March 2019. Through this acquisition, the CNIM Group intends to become the European leader in aerostat-based platforms for Defense and Security. Thanks to its strong experience gained in projects designed for the benefit of major actors in defense, security and space – Thales group, Airbus Defence & Space, French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) – CNIM Air Space now offers a complete range of tethered aerostats dedicated to surveillance and communication missions.

White Hawk tethered aerostat (Picture source: CNIM Air Space)

Due to their duration or their need of stationary position, standard drones or aircrafts cannot achieve some missions. CNIM Air Space’s tethered aerostats offer to the civil security, the military and the security professionals the necessary persistence to achieve missions over several months while being competitive in terms of logistics and operational costs.

CNIM Air Space’s tethered aerostats can take onboard any kind of payloads (EO/IR camera, relay antenna, radar, etc.), up to 250 kg (for the Condor tethered aerostat), to transmit to the ground station the reliable and necessary information for decision-making.

The White Hawk is a 40m³ elliptical tethered aerostat that can be deployed in only 45 minutes by 2 operators. It can take onboard 5 kg of payloads, at 200 meters high.

Thanks to its low logistical footprint and its ease-to-deploy process, the White Hawk is a surveillance or communication platform perfectly adapted to secure large events and to protect sensitive sites or theatres of operation.