
Swiss UAV AG was a privately owned company based in
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
that designed and manufactured
unmanned aerial vehicles
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or unmanned aircraft system (UAS), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft with no human pilot, crew, or passengers onboard, but rather is controlled remotely or is autonomous.De Gruyter Handbook of Dron ...
(drones). The firm developed, produced & sold vertical take-off & landing vehicles from 2006 to 2014.
It entered a partnership with
Saab in May 2009. In 2013 the firm was acquired by Unmanned Systems AG and the following year merged into
UMS Aero Group
UMS Skeldar AG is an aircraft manufacturer based in Sweden, with both headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Linköping. It was formed in 2018 as a joint venture between majority shareholder UMS Aero Group and Saab AB, Saab. Its principle p ...
alongside Swedish company Unmanned Systems AB.
At the end of 2015 UMS Aero Group became the majority partner in UMS Skeldar, a joint venture with Saab, manufacturers of the
Skeldar unmanned vehicle.
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