South African UAV manufacturer
Unmanned aerial systems engineered for African skies.
You Ask. We Deliver.
We design, build, test, support and export our own family of commercial UAV platforms, built for dust, heat, distance and terrain.
01 · Who we are
New to South Africa. Not new to this.
Boomslang Dynamics is a South African manufacturer of commercial unmanned aerial systems. We design, build, test, support and export our own family of professional UAV platforms, engineered for African operating conditions: dust, heat, distance and terrain.
We operate as part of an established international group with proven, field tested airframe and avionics designs, our own composites and electronics production facilities, and years of live production behind us. The designs are flying today. The production methodology is running today. What we bring to South Africa is a working capability, localised.
You Ask, We Deliver.
02 · Capability and production
A full OEM covering the entire life of an aircraft.
We are a full original equipment manufacturer, not an assembler of imported kits. From the first composite layup to the last payload upgrade, everything stays under one quality system.
Design and engineering
Proven airframe and avionics designs, refined across years of operational service and developed entirely in house. There is nothing to license and no third party to depend on.
Advanced manufacturing
Precision composites fabrication, additive manufacturing and secure avionics and sensor integration, all under an AS9100 aerospace quality system.
Testing and certification
Every aircraft proves its full mission in a hardware in the loop test cell before it ever leaves the ground. Environmental testing validates every electronic system for African conditions.
Whole life support
Spares, maintenance, overhauls, payload upgrades and technical support, delivered locally. Our clients buy a capability with a partner behind it, not a box.
03 · The product family
Three classes of aircraft. One standard of engineering.
Full spectrum coverage for commercial operators, from a whole coastline in a single sortie to a tower survey at arm's length.
The Wide Area Surveyor
Long endurance and beyond line of sight. Built for agriculture, conservation, maritime patrol and large area infrastructure: a whole farming district, coastline or reserve in a single sortie.
- Endurance20+ hours per flight
- RangeBeyond line of sight
- MissionWide area survey and patrol
The Workhorse
Medium range with no runway needed. The volume platform for mining and infrastructure operators moving from manual inspection to digital precision.
- Endurance8 to 12 hours
- Radius200 km operating radius
- LaunchVertical, from any site
The Close Inspection Unit
Under 15 kg and carried in a backpack, for power line, tower and confined space survey. Rapid to deploy, precise up close.
- MassUnder 15 kg
- DeploymentBackpack, minutes to launch
- MissionClose and confined survey
Payloads are modular across the family.
Optical, thermal, multispectral and specialist sensors swap in and out, so you upgrade the sensor, not the aircraft.
04 · Industries we serve
Vast areas to monitor. Critical infrastructure to protect.
South Africa's biggest industries face some of the country's biggest opportunities: land to map, assets to guard and scarce resources to manage. These are exactly the problems professional UAVs solve.
Precision agriculture
Crop health mapping, water stress and disease detection, variable rate application across thousands of hectares per flight.
Mining and tailings safety
Stockpile volumetrics, site mapping, slope stability and tailings dam monitoring, compliance survey.
Electricity grid inspection
Line, substation and remote infrastructure inspection across thousands of kilometres, without helicopters or foot patrols.
Conservation and ranger support
Night capable persistent overwatch, wildlife counting and rapid ranger support across reserves.
Rail and freight corridors
Track condition, structural survey and intrusion detection along hundreds of kilometres of corridor.
Livestock and stock theft monitoring
Persistent optical and thermal overwatch of grazing land no ground patrol can cover.
Water infrastructure and leak detection
Pipeline, canal and reservoir survey for leaks, illegal connections and pollution.
Wildfire and disaster response
Early fire detection, live fire and flood front mapping, rapid damage assessment.
Forestry and plantation management
Tree health, growth and inventory survey, fire risk mapping, early outbreak detection.
Maritime and fisheries
Wide area vessel detection, fisheries monitoring and pollution tracking across long coastlines.
05 · Training and support
A platform is only as good as the people who fly it.
Boomslang Dynamics runs established training and operational support programmes, alongside hands on help with registration, certification and mission planning.
- Commercial drone piloting. Certified instruction from first flight to advanced operations.
- Fixed wing operations. Long range mission planning, launch and recovery.
- Regulatory compliance. Registration, certification and airspace approvals, handled with you.
- From aerial data to decisions. Turning survey output into operational answers.
In South Africa that means a growing base of locally trained, certified pilots, technicians and operators, and clients whose systems are flown, maintained and supported by South Africans.
06 · Contact
You Ask.
We Deliver.
Tell us what you need in the air: the area, the asset, the problem. We will come back with a straight answer on platform, payload and programme.