Iveda Introduces Gas-Powered GX10-F100 Unmanned Helicopter Platform

Iveda has introduced IvedaAir, a rotary-wing unmanned aircraft line led by the gasoline-powered GX10-F100. The Mesa, Arizona, company announced the line on August 19, positioning it for public-safety, maritime-security, emergency-response and government missions rather than as a conventional consumer drone.

Iveda says the GX10-F100 can fly for more than 150 minutes with a 12-pound payload and carry up to 19 pounds externally. The company also lists a 68-mph maximum speed. TechRadar reported that Iveda advertises a 19-mile operational range, a 1.43-gallon fuel tank, and a carbon-fiber airframe measuring 72 inches in both length and rotor diameter.

The platform uses a helicopter-style main-rotor configuration, enabling vertical takeoff, landing and hover. Iveda says IvedaAir can support autonomous waypoint flights, stabilized hover, encrypted video links, live video and AI-enabled object or anomaly detection. The company lists an electro-optical, three-axis-gimbal camera with 10x zoom for the GX10-F100.

Iveda describes the GX10-F100’s endurance as up to five times that of many electric UAV systems. That is a company comparison, not an independently verified benchmark, and endurance will vary with payload, weather, flight profile and other operating conditions.

Why it matters

Gasoline propulsion and a helicopter configuration could offer public-safety and infrastructure operators more on-station time than small battery-powered multirotors. However, Iveda has announced the aircraft rather than demonstrated independently verified performance, so its endurance, range and payload claims should be treated as manufacturer specifications until flight-test data or operational evaluations are released.

Sources: IvedaAir product page; Iveda launch announcement via Nasdaq; Military Aerospace report; TechRadar report