DZYNE ULTRA Turbo UAS Sets New Endurance Benchmark with 60-Hour High-Altitude Flight

DZYNE, a specialist in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Counter-UAS (C-UAS), and layered defense solutions, reported that its ULTRA Turbo UAS has successfully completed a 60-hour flight at 25,000 feet and 100 knots true airspeed.

This achievement establishes a new benchmark for Group 5 UAS flight endurance and underscores the platform’s role in persistent airborne operations.

The ULTRA Turbo is designed for rapid development and seamless integration, offering enhanced altitude performance and higher cruise speeds that allow for superior headwind penetration. These technical improvements are intended to support complex missions across the defense, homeland security, and commercial sectors.

As the latest evolution in the ULTRA UAS family, the Turbo variant is engineered to provide strategic reach at a tactical cost, rivaling the performance of more expensive platforms. The aircraft features a GPS-hardened architecture for resilience in contested environments and supports multi-mission payloads including Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), electronic warfare, communications, and launched effects. Its compact logistical footprint is designed to facilitate rapid deployment and sustainment in the field.

The platform supports a wide range of applications across defense, homeland, civil, and commercial domains, including situational domain awareness, communications relay, border patrol, maritime surveillance, oil and gas monitoring, agricultural assessment, infrastructure security, and environmental monitoring.

Ed Smetak, EVP of Programs at DZYNE Technologies, commented, “ULTRA Turbo showcases DZYNE’s ability to anticipate, adapt, and deliver solutions that directly support mission requirements. This milestone demonstrates how endurance, paired with altitude and speed at this scale, can transform operational awareness for our clients. ULTRA Turbo strengthens the foundation of our long-endurance aircraft portfolio by delivering the persistent reach, sensing, and responsiveness that modern mission networks depend on as they evolve toward more distributed concepts of operation.”

By validating DZYNE’s investment in scalable U.S.-based production capacity, this flight strengthens the pathway toward program-of-record adoption. The ULTRA Turbo serves as a cornerstone of the company’s layered defense architecture, providing the connectivity and operational reach required for modern decision advantage.