SD120 by SwissDrones | Xplorate Group

SD120 Mission Economics Simulator

What is crewed patrol really costing your fleet?

Model your fleet in two minutes and see — on your own numbers — what the SD120 long-range uncrewed helicopter could save, and the new worlds it could open.

This 300 km corridor mission

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0km max range*

0h max endurance*

0kg useful load†

SATCOMBVLOS anywhere

*Maximum range at 5 kg payload, 49 kn / 8,000 ft ISA, landing with a 30-minute reserve; maximum endurance at 5 kg payload, 39 kn / 1,300 ft ISA — the two are flown differently and are not achievable on the same sortie. †Fuel plus payload. SD120 in development; all figures preliminary and subject to change.

The launch allocation is limited. SD120 launch-operator positions are numbered and assigned in LOI order — when the launch allocation is taken, the queue is the queue.

1 · Your operation

2 · Mission profile

3 · Readiness

4 · Your results

Start with who you are

Select every profile that applies — many operators are more than one. Your fleet and mission mix build from the combination.

Your fleet — every aircraft flying patrol, survey or surveillance work. Costs are seeded from published benchmarks; overwrite them with your own figures and the whole model runs on your books.

Where do your hours actually go?

Split your annual mission hours. The SD120 is designed to absorb the long, repetitive, hazardous hours — and leave the crewed machine for the work that genuinely needs people on board.

Do you fly these missions at night today?

Primary operating region

The readiness diagnostic

The Xplorate Group aerial intelligence readiness diagnostic — six weighted dimensions, localised to your jurisdiction. Every answer shows its score contribution as you give it; your altitude climbs on the right.

Where do you operate? — localises the regulatory ladder to your regulator

Your sector

Your role

Flight hours a year — across everything you fly or task

Asset scale under your remit

Your SD120 business case

READINESS TIER

Mission replay

One corridor mission, flown on your numbers — watch what each aircraft spends getting there.

These numbers deserve a conversation. See the SD120 against your missions — 45 minutes, tailored to your network.

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Unlock the full business case

The complete model — crossover analysis, five-year cumulative savings, mission-by-mission economics and your readiness roadmap — plus a personalised written business case from our team.

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Company / agency

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Your role

When is your next fleet or contract decision?

We use these details to prepare and send your business case and to contact you about the SD120 programme. No spam, no sharing.

The crossover

Annual cost of the mission set — crewed-only vs a blended fleet where the SD120 absorbs the substitutable hours. Hover for detail.

Crewed-only (today)Blended fleet with SD120

Your transition, year by year

Drag each year's substitution ramp — how fast the SD120 absorbs the substitutable hours — and watch the blended economics build. No cliff, no leap: a staged transition you control.

The cost race

One mission, both aircraft, real time. Pick a distance and press go — the gap is the point.

Your fleet, and what absorbs the hours

Drawn to relative scale, with the crew each airframe needs and what an hour costs. The SD120 does not replace the fleet — it absorbs the hours the fleet should not be flying.

Fleet breakdown — where the saving sits

Annual saving per aircraft group, on your mix. This is the drill-down your CFO will ask for.

Your readiness radar

Six weighted dimensions against the median operator in your segment. Hover an axis label for the story.

The regulatory ladder

Your regulatory pathway, mapped

Operators like you

Crew exposure — before and after

Every mission type your crews fly, plotted by hazard level and hours flown. Toggle the SD120 in and watch the exposure this model removes go dark. This is the chart your safety manager and your board risk committee will ask to keep.

Cost per mission hour

Your aircraft vs SD120 modelled mission cost (indicative band).

Where your hours go

Hours that can transfer to uncrewed are underlined in red. The rest requires a crew on board.

The 24-hour mission clock

Crewed operations live inside the duty window. The SD120 does not. Click the night blocks to add them to your operation and watch the revenue that is currently locked out.

Reach, to scale

Five-year cumulative operating saving

Substituted hours only, at today's mission volume; excludes new-revenue upside. Programme and acquisition economics are shared inside the Launch Operator Programme.

Readiness profile

Send the case to the people who'll ask

A business case travels further when each stakeholder gets their own version. Download, copy or email a card — each one carries your scenario, so your colleagues see your numbers, not a brochure.

Compare two futures

Model a scenario, save it as A, change anything — fleet, mix, ramp, night operations — and save it as B. The difference is the argument you will be having internally anyway; better to have it on real numbers.

Beyond savings — the growth engine

The bigger prize is not what the SD120 saves — it is the operator it lets you become.

The data dividend — Xplorate Intelligence

Every geo-referenced flight hour can be sold twice: once as a mission, again as intelligence. Toggle the products your flying could generate — bands are indicative, per year, on your modelled data hours.

What your flight hours become

Sample deliverable formats from the Xplorate Intelligence platform — anonymised and illustrative. This is the product your customers subscribe to.

Your intelligence business, eighteen months on

The same flying, productised. This is an illustrative Xplorate Intelligence storefront built from your corridor and mission mix — subscription tiers, not flight hours. Indicative structure and figures for discussion.

One operations room, any region — Xplorate M2U

SATCOM command and control means missions are supervised, not crewed. One M2U operations room serves corridors and coastlines hundreds of kilometres apart — new regions stop meaning new bases.

The bridge is already flying

You do not wait for the SD120 to start. The Group's in-service SDO 50 flies revenue missions for named operators today — your team builds uncrewed experience now, and your launch position converts it at entry into service.

Financial deep dive — sensitivity

How the annual saving moves when the assumptions move. The case survives its own stress test.

The pathway — how operators actually get there

No leap of faith required: the Group's bridge model means you can be flying revenue missions on the in-service SDO 50 while the SD120 completes development.

Assumptions and sources — the full audit trail

Every number in this model, where it came from, and how to challenge it. Bring your own accounts to the briefing and we will run it on your actuals.

What would you ask in the briefing?

One question you want answered before this goes any further — it rides along with your scenario, so the briefing starts where your thinking already is.

Press Enter or use the button — it is attached to your record and read before the briefing.

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Modelled estimates for discussion only. Crewed-aircraft figures are drawn from published operating-cost benchmarks and are adjustable to your own accounts; SD120 figures reflect development targets for an aircraft that is under development — all specifications preliminary and subject to change, and mission economics dependent on configuration, regulatory approvals, environment and mission profile. Savings and revenue figures are indicative bands, not quotations or offers. SAIL IV is a targeted operational-risk classification, not an achieved certification. Nothing here constitutes an offer or commitment. © Xplorate Group — SwissDrones Operating AG and Xplorate Pacific Pty Ltd. www.xplorate.io · www.swissdrones.com