Interesting UAV

[annodomini2]

https://youtu.be/kA1ENhxLqTo

[Equus]

"At Ptero Dynamics, we believe that advanced air mobility can change the world for the better...so we designed a drone to help the military kill more people."

[GliderRider]

Certainly a fairly novel approach to get the benefits of vertical takeoff and landing, without the in-cruise drag of four upward facing motors and propellers that others use.

The centre section fold mechanism must be pretty weighty, but the weight and drag of a wheeled undercarriage is avoided,

There must be some mileage in a very basic multirotor which could lift, launch and recover a fixed wing UAV, so the latter is optimised for the cruise portion with no compromises for the take off and landing.