{"id":184,"date":"2009-12-01T20:14:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T19:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/?p=184"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:47:57","slug":"a-hydrogen-fuel-cell-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/2009\/12\/01\/a-hydrogen-fuel-cell-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen fuel cell UAV breaks endurance record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hydrogen Fuel Cell drone is the future? The US Navy <strong>Naval Research<\/strong> Laboratory has just completed the test of a new kind of <strong>UAV<\/strong> (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) which, thanks to a battery powered by <strong>hydrogen<\/strong>, has been able to fly for <strong>26<\/strong> full hours without any interruption, while carrying a small payload weighing approximately 2 kg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Ion Tiger<\/strong> vehicle, apart from using a hydrogen cell as a high-energy fuel, also relies on al <strong>electric<\/strong> propulsion system, which guarantees a complete absence of <strong>noise<\/strong> during its operations. The system\u2019s total weight is approximately <strong>17 kg<\/strong>, and it can carry a payload of up to 2.5 kg. Its hydrogen fuel cell provides approximately <strong>550 Watt<\/strong> power, which is around 7 times the energy supplied by a conventional battery of the same weight.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the pros and cons of hydrogen fuel cell drone ?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aside from low energy <strong>consumption<\/strong>, the possibility of operating <strong>silently<\/strong> makes it perfect for applications which require flexibility and quick operation, and most of all, extreme <strong>confidentiality for this hydrogen fuel cell drone<\/strong>. Thanks to these characteristics, the Ion Tiger<strong> unmanned vehicle<\/strong> is perfect for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/surveillance-drones.php\">aerial video surveillance<\/a><\/strong> operations, even in long range.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The result achieved by Ion Tiger, with a <strong>continuous<\/strong> flight time of 26 hours and 1 minute, breaks the previous record, held by the same vehicle, which during an <strong>unofficial<\/strong> flight was in the air for 23 hours and 17 minutes.<br \/>\nFurthermore, this record almost <strong>triples<\/strong> the result obtained by the hybrid-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twi-global.com\/technical-knowledge\/faqs\/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-hydrogen-fuel-cells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SUAV<\/strong> <\/a>(Small Unmanned Aerial vehicle) <strong>Puma<\/strong>, which only one year and a half ago flew for <strong>9 hours<\/strong>; Ion Tiger\u2019s achievement also functions as an indicator of the huge <strong>potential<\/strong> of hydrogen fuel cell power for this kind of vehicles, which can be used in several fields such as <strong>security<\/strong>, aerial reconnaissance or <strong>scientific<\/strong> aerial photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen Fuel Cell drone is the future? The US Navy Naval Research Laboratory has just completed the test of a new kind of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) which, thanks to a battery powered by hydrogen, has been able to fly for 26 full hours without any interruption, while carrying a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","two-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}