SHERPA
Sherpa PADS enable safe, accurate and cost-effective delivery of cargo from a variety of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. Sherpa systems achieve high accuracy without dangerous low-level flight, enabling cargo delivery in mountainous terrain, zero visibility, or outside the reach of MANPADS. PAD is also an IED-proof cargo delivery method.
All Sherpa variants are fully autonomous and GPS guided; SAASM GPS and remote manual control, with the unique ability to reprogram the target point in-flight with the push of a button, is also available. All variants feature fully guided ram-air parafoils which maintain positive control of the load throughout the entire flight, with a final soft landing at approximately half the rate of descent of round parachutes.
Sherpa variants feature a robust ability to overcome adverse winds, and offers significant flexibility with respect to dispatch scenarios. The Sherpa Ranger and Navigator are HAHO and HALO capable, thanks to a uniquely programmable drogue delay.
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SKYLINK
SkyLink enhances the Air/Ground operational capabilities of military free fall by augmenting the individual parachutist’s environmental, geographic and team situational awareness.
SkyLink improves safety during poor-weather/night insertions and also provides important new team dynamic re-tasking abilities (while in-flight for both personnel and guided cargo systems).
Optionally linked with MMIST’s DropSonde system and LaunchPADS Mission Management system, users can benefit from the latest advances in techniques, tactics and procedures for insertion of Special Forces and for resupply and logistics support of ground forces both mounted and dismounted.
CQ-10
The SnowGoose CQ-10 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), NSN 1550-01-505-3010, is a multi-purpose, autonomous, aerial cargo delivery system with a payload capability up to 575 lbs (260.8 Kg) carried in 6 individual cargo bays. It combines MMIST's latest developments in autonomous guidance and precision cargo delivery.
The SnowGoose UAV is capable of full autonomous flight within the boundaries of approved air space, according to the pre-programmed mission.
Flight of the UAV is monitored and controlled from a SATCOM ground control station. The SnowGoose modular payload bays allow for multi-mission capability with simple integration of a wide range of available payload equipment packages.
LAUNCHPADS
The MMIST Launch-PADS Multi-Mission Manager offers an advanced mission planning environment which can be used to plan a multitude of different mission scenarios, including Sherpa™ PADS System release footprints, Unguided High/Low Velocity CDS CARPs (Calculated Air Release Points), as well as Personnel CARP/HARP (High Altitude Release Point) points.
Launch-PADS™ offers users the flexibility to plan any combination of modern airdrop scenarios, presenting concise release point/footprint for the specific mission at hand.
The system features an optional Meteorological DropSonde & Cargo Bay GPS Retransmission System, allowing aircrews to confidently increase standoff distance and more accurately deliver CDS cargo and personnel from high altitudes. The system allows aircrews to obtain precise meteorological data moments before airdrop, allowing them to determine and/or refine the release points for their specific cargo.
DROP SONDES
Drop sondes are consumable instruments deployed from an aircraft to measure wind speed and direction between flight level and the surface. As the Drop Sonde falls (at roughly 25 m/s or 5000 ft/min), it interprets GPS satellite information to determine its location while moving with the horizontal winds. The sondes GPS coordinates are transmitted to a sonde receiver on the airplane or on the ground. The data received by the sonde receiver is used to calculate the wind speed and direction.
Drop Sondes are compatible with:
Drop Sonde
SPACE RECOVERY
Partnering with private companies that specialize in re-usable space cargo platforms including rockets, low orbit satellites, and space tourism, we are developing new lightweight solutions for safely and precisely returning equipment back to earth.
Since 2014, MMIST has worked with multiple companies seeking stratospheric payload recovery from altitudes as high as 120,000’ MSL.
With minor modifications, our Sherpa Precision Aerial Delivery System has been successful in recovering increasingly large payloads.
MMIST has quickly defined itself as a leader in the emerging market of stratospheric payload recovery. Contact us with your custom requirements!
UNGUIDED PARACHUTES
Container Delivery Systems (CDS)
This Container Delivery System (CDS) method of airdrop uses A-22 containers to deliver miscellaneous items of supplies and equipment by means of cargo airdrop. The items are delivered by either High-Velocity or Low-Velocity parachutes and from C-130 or C-17 aircraft.
Up to 40 containers with up to 2,200 pounds each can be delivered by this method, and it has proven itself to be an effective way to deliver supplies measuring no more than 4 ft x 4 ft x 4ft and weighing between 501lbs and 2,200 lbs.
Low Cost Aerial Delivery Systems (LCADS)
The LCADS (Low Cost Aerial Delivery System) system was designed as a lower cost alternative to the A-22 Container Delivery System (CDS) specifically for missions when recovery of re-use of the delivery system is unlikely. The LCADS design features lower cost polypropylene material instead of typical nylon material and features construction methods specifically designed to enable procurement of this system from numerous manufacturing sources outside the normal parachute manufacturing industry.
The LCADS system features two configurations, namely high velocity and low velocity.
High Velocity - used to deliver up to 2200 lbs of certain types of robust supplies and consists of:
- One (1) High velocity cruciform parachute;
- One (1) Low Cost Container (LCC);
- Five (5) Layers of consumable honeycomb;
- One (1) Prepared Plywood skid board;
Low Velocity - used to deliver up to 2400 lbs of most types of supplies and features:
- One (1) Low velocity round parachute;
- One (1) Low Cost Container (LCC);
- Two (2) Layers of consumable honeycomb;
- One (1) Prepared Plywood skid board;
Also available for individual sale, is the Low Cost Container System (LCC), a subset of the LCADS system and a cost effective alternative to the A22 CDS.
