With its 154 lb. payload and clever management system, the XAB P150 options superior rotary atomization spraying expertise. | Credit score: Rantizo
Rantizo yesterday introduced the growth of its tools portfolio with the brand new XAG P150 spray drone. Launched by producer XAG in December 2024, the XAG P150 brings the most recent spray drone expertise to the agriculture trade, it mentioned. The addition to Rantizo’s drone lineup is now accessible for the 2025 spraying season.
“To satisfy the rising demand for spray drone companies, we try to supply the most effective accessible expertise at an inexpensive value level,” mentioned Eric Ringer, chief discipline operations officer at Rantizo. “We’re excited to supply the XAG P150 to our spray drone operator community and also will fly them in our personal regional hub areas this season.”
Constructed to assist operators cowl extra floor in much less time, the XAG P150 options capabilities to spice up spray drone operators’ productiveness. It permits operators to spray floor shortly and effectively at greater gallons-per-acre charges whereas sustaining greater speeds, in keeping with Rantizo.
With most flight speeds of greater than 30 mph (48 kph) and an 18.5-gal. (70 L) tank, the XAG P150 is without doubt one of the largest and quickest spray drones presently accessible in the marketplace, the corporate added.
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Rantizo fights to proceed gross sales of DJI drones
Rantizo is a part of a coalition of agriculture-specific drone operators and repair suppliers that fashioned to foyer in opposition to the proposed Countering CCP Drones Act (H.R.6572) that was launched in 2022 and debated via the top of calendar yr 2024. This invoice would ban the sale of drones from Shenzhen Da-Jiang Improvements Sciences and Applied sciences Co. (DJI) within the U.S.
As of December 2024, regardless of its preliminary inclusion within the proposed Nationwide Protection Authorization Act (NDAA), the act was omitted within the closing model of the NDAA, permitting DJI to proceed its operations within the U.S. with out new restrictions. XAG is a China-based drone producer, however it isn’t included within the Countering CCP Drones Act.
With its AcreConnect software program, Rantizo mentioned it connects demand for agricultural spray-drone companies to certified, licensed, and insured operators. Operators within the firm’s community and regional spray service hubs present software companies nationwide for a variety of crops and associated industries. AcreConnect works with various completely different drones and drone producers, bringing drone fleet administration beneath a single software, it mentioned.
“In-field operational excellence is our precedence. By understanding the capabilities of this new expertise, we try to assist our operator community and regional hubs maximize their spray days,” mentioned Zach Hanner, Agronomy Operations Lead at Rantizo. “By our testing and analysis, we’ve discovered that the XAG P150 provides a fantastic answer to advance precision agriculture efforts and effectiveness in drone spraying.”
Different drone developments
The previous week has been a busy one for suppliers of uncrewed aerial techniques (UAS). Final week, Protect AI reportedly approached a $5 billion valuation because it raises $200 million, almost double that of its earlier spherical in 2023. The San Diego-based firm develops software program for protection drones.
Protect AI has additionally established an workplace in Kyiv to coach Ukraine’s Unmanned Programs Forces with V-BAT, the vertical take-off and touchdown (VTOL) UAS for digital warfare environments (see video under).
Final week, Volatus Aerospace partnered with heavy drone developer Draganfly Inc. as a value-added reseller of precision information acquisition for the oil and gasoline trade. Right now, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based Draganfly introduced that it has obtained a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) waiver to fly drones over human beings and transferring autos, beginning in a prescribed route over Boston.
“This achievement permits us to deploy drones for crucial functions in city environments, together with public security, infrastructure inspection, and specialised mission assist,” mentioned Cameron Chell, CEO of Draganfly.
ZenaTech Inc. final week acquired Weddle Survey Inc., an Oregon land survey engineering firm that would be the foundation of its Northwest U.S. drone-as-a-service (DaaS) operations. Right now, ZenaTech acquired Pensacola, Fla.-based KJM Land Surveying LLC to determine a Southeast base for its DaaS enterprise.
The land surveying tools market might attain $12.56 billion by 2028, in keeping with DroneXI. Vancouver, B.C.-based ZenaTech mentioned the mixed firm plans to develop drones for functions along with land surveying, similar to watching and managing wildfires. It has submitted its multipurpose drone for FAA Half 137 crop sprayer certification.
ParaZero Applied sciences Inc. final week obtained approval from the Israeli Protection Export Controls Company to market its HALO (high-altitude, low-opening) Precision Airdrop System for delivering navy provides to difficult environments. The firm had efficiently examined the system for delivering provides similar to blood models.
ParaZero has launched its SafeAir Raptor, a security system designed to work with Anzu Robotics’ Raptor and Raptor T (thermal) drone fashions. It supplies autonomous monitoring and real-time failure detection.
As well as, Foresight Autonomous Holdings Inc. mentioned it can combine its 3D notion techniques with drones from a number one Indian protection producer with $16 million in income potential. The Ness Ziona, Israel-based firm additionally delivered manufacturing techniques to SUNWAY-AI in China and mentioned its Eye-Internet Cell Ltd. subsidiary has handed UTAC discipline checks beneath the European New Automotive Evaluation Programme.
