Beehive Industries Introduces Frenzy™, Engine Family Designed to Revolutionize Performance of Swarm Class UAVs
Frenzy engines will offer class-leading efficiency at a fraction of the cost of traditionally manufactured engines.
Denver, CO (December 16, 2024) Beehive Industries today unveiled plans for Frenzy™, a family of additively-enabled jet engines developed for small, single-use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
“Frenzy engines power swarm class drones and munitions intended to overwhelm an adversary’s defenses through sheer number,” says Chief Product Officer Gordie Follin. “These systems are low-cost, compact, and designed to deploy in mass quantities, a fierce combination that our military needs.”
The Frenzy family engines are purpose-built to meet exacting mission requirements. Once complete, Beehive can take a new engine to large scale production volumes rapidly, because of its vertically integrated supply chain and additively-enabled design methods.
“Frenzy engines provide everything that the Swarm mission needs and nothing that they don’t,” says Follin. “They are designed to maximize the value of additive manufacturing, meaning best-in-class performance and cost.”
Another requirement of large volume Swarm applications is immediate useability after long term storage. The Frenzy engines can be kept in a “ready to run” environment for more than 10 years and deployed en masse at a moment’s notice. Frenzy engine models will range from 6-inches to 9-inches in diameter and 100 to 300 lbs in thrust.
Beehive Industries has secured its first contract for the development and delivery of 30 Frenzy engines with the University of Dayton Research Institute, sponsored by the United States Air Force. These additively-enabled engines will be delivered within 24 months from the contract signing in October, 2024.
For more information about purchasing these systems, contact sales@beehiveind.com