Most thermal programs don’t fail on sensitivity. They fail on coverage.
47 minutes with the Gremsy LYNX NDAA attached — tested in a real inspection profile that blends hover time with cruise time, not just flying in circles.
The real question
A missed fault doesn't announce itself. It sits there until the next scheduled inspection catches it — or until it fails first.
Here's a question worth asking any vendor who quotes you a flight time: is that number cruising in a straight line, or is it actually doing the job? Hover takes more power than cruise. A thermal inspection isn't a straight-line flight — it's hover over a transformer, move to the next one, hover again. 47 minutes with the Lynx attached is tested against that real pattern, not the easy number.
One airframe. Two thermal payloads, depending on what you need.
The Gremsy Lynx is the standard thermal payload on the Vulcan SX — FLIR Boson 640 sensor, 640x512 thermal resolution at 60Hz, NETD below 50mK. Paired with a 4K EO camera for visual confirmation in the same pass. Anomalies get geotagged the moment they're captured — not stitched together after the flight, in the field where it matters.
The Vulcan SX also integrates the Gremsy Orus for programs already standardized on it.
Why teams are switching to Vulcan SX
Dual EO/IR in one flight. Visual and thermal data together — no second pass required to confirm what the thermal image shows
Radar-based terrain following, built in. Substations and T&D corridors aren't flat. The Vulcan SX's active terrain-following radar holds altitude relative to the real terrain, not a stale reference — so you don't lose data quality chasing elevation changes manually.
No software subscription. Flight Deck comes with the aircraft. Your program economics stay simple.
DJI is out for federally funded programs. Vision Aerial is not. If a utility or federal-adjacent project just disqualified your current platform, this isn't a future consideration — it's solved.
Made in Montana. Built and supported in the U.S., not a knockoff kit with a sticker.
Get the full breakdown of Vulcan SX flying a thermal payload. Want the specs, the payload options, and field data side by side? Download the mission flyer — no form, no gate, just the printable version to keep.
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