Product profile
Vulcan Platform
The Vulcan Platform is Vision Aerial's family of professional multirotor aircraft. Vulcan SX is a medium-lift tricopter and Vulcan YX is a heavy-lift offse...
Facts
- Company
- Vision Aerial
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- industrial_inspection
- Website
- https://www.visionaerial.com/products/drones/vulcan-platform
About Vulcan Platform
The Vulcan Platform is Vision Aerial's family of professional multirotor aircraft. Vulcan SX is a medium-lift tricopter and Vulcan YX is a heavy-lift offset Y-6, both built around collision avoidance, terrain following, RTK GNSS and modular payload integration.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Industrial multirotor UAS family
Core: Medium- and heavy-lift professional drones
Function: Supports autonomous inspection, mapping and public-safety missions with swappable payloads
Audience: UAS operators, surveyors and industrial inspection teams
Specifications
- family_variants
- Vulcan SX and Vulcan YX
- navigation_features
- Radar, forward collision avoidance, active terrain following and integrated dual-band RTK GNSS
- top_speed_mps
- 20 m/s
- vulcan_sx_endurance_min
- No-payload endurance min
- vulcan_sx_payload_kg
- 3 kg
- vulcan_yx_endurance_min
- 60 min
- vulcan_yx_payload_kg
- Multimodal payload kg
- weather_rating
- IP54 rain rated; wind tolerance up to 14–15 m/s depending on variant
Operations
- Environment
- outdoor_field_environment, industrial_sites, utilities, remote_areas
- Primary user
- survey_teams, industrial_inspection_teams, public_safety_operators, uav_integrators
- Role
- industrial_inspection, mapping_survey, public_safety, payload_integration, autonomous_navigation
- Interaction model
- autonomous_mission_execution, remote_supervision, payload_integration, terrain_following
- Mobility class
- multirotor_uav, untethered_aerial_robot
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Definitive transaction documents replace the Vision Aerial LOI — 2026-07-24
- Mobix Labs signs binding LOI to acquire Vision Aerial — 2026-06-04
- Vision Aerial debuts Vulcan industrial drone platform — 2026-02-18
- RobotLAB adds Vision Aerial drone systems to commercial and government portfolio — 2024-12-09