{"id":13905,"date":"2026-06-25T04:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/13905\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T04:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:20:26","slug":"poland-buys-shield-ai-v-bat-drone-to-support-maritime-isr-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/13905\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland Buys Shield AI V-BAT Drone to Support Maritime ISR Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poland is acquiring Shield AI\u2019s V-BAT uncrewed aerial vehicle to support the Polish Navy\u2019s maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations.<\/p>\n

The vertical takeoff and landing drone, already proven in Ukraine<\/a>, will be fielded on an unspecified Polish naval vessel.<\/p>\n

An undisclosed quantity will be delivered by year-end, as per<\/a> Poland\u2019s Armaments Agency.<\/p>\n

With rising security threats in the Baltic Sea<\/a>, the V-BAT drone can \u201cserve as a force multiplier for Poland, Baltic Sea nations, and NATO,\u201d according<\/a> to Shield AI President and Co-founder Ryan Tseng.<\/p>\n

Made for Contested Environments<\/p>\n

Shield AI designed and developed the V-BAT<\/a> drone to sustain operations in highly contested electronic warfare environments.<\/p>\n

Its ducted-fan design enables vertical takeoff and landing from ship decks, urban rooftops, and other austere locations without requiring a runway or launch equipment.<\/p>\n

Powered by a heavy fuel engine, the V-BAT has a maximum gross takeoff weight of 161 pounds (73 kilograms), a payload capacity of 40 pounds (18 kilograms), and endurance exceeding 12 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The drone measures nearly 10 feet (3 meters) tall and has a wingspan of 12.5 feet (3.8 meters).<\/p>\n

V-BAT has been in service with or ordered by several other countries, including Armenia<\/a>, the Netherlands<\/a>, Romania<\/a>, and the US<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poland is acquiring Shield AI\u2019s V-BAT uncrewed aerial vehicle to support the Polish Navy\u2019s maritime intelligence,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2351,9673,9,3397,8992,9674,9675],"class_list":["post-13905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-baltic-sea","tag-intelligence-surveillance-and-reconnaissance","tag-poland","tag-polish-navy","tag-shield-ai","tag-v-bat-drone","tag-vtol-aircraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}