- Advanced cryogenic liquid hydrogen reactant storage system enables long endurance fuel cell powered unmanned vehicles
- System features:
- Liquid hydrogen reactant storage enables 72-hour continuous flight operations
- Contains 27 percent of the system’s weight in hydrogen
- Scalable to larger vehicles
- Specific energy is an impressive 2,500 W-hr/kg for Ion Tiger UAV with PEM fuel cell
- Turn-key liquid hydrogen generation, storage, and delivery system supports base refueling operations and testing
- UAV applications:
- Intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance
- Navy surface ship decoys
- Targets
- Ion Tiger fuel cell UAV – photo courtesy of Naval Research Laboratory