FOT Mini featured in Uncrewed Systems Technology magazine
01 June 2026
Flying Objects Technologies was featured in the June/July 2026 edition of Uncrewed Systems Technology magazine. They wrote:
“Flying Objects Technologies, a French avionics OEM, presented its FOTMini software-defined radio (SDR), which it claims (as of writing) to be the smallest drone data link on the market.
“It weighs about 25 g and enables effective, bidirectional video and telemetry links up to 35 km away,” said Jean-Luc Laydevant of Flying Objects Technologies.
“It is also sold at a very affordable price point relative to its performance and, starting this quarter, it is EU manufactured – specifically in the Baltic States – and we’re ready to manufacture it in really high volumes.
“Being an SDR enables a much smaller physical format than standard wi-fi radios, and so much greater performance efficiency. The low-price, high-volume output makes it ideal for volume applications.”
The FOTMini can function over frequency bands from 1 to 2.2 GHz, with 10 MHz bandwidths and 27 dBm standard operating power. The 13 mm tall, 49 mm diameter device offers downlink throughputs of up to 10 MB/s, uplinks of 600 kB/s, operating latencies of 20 ms and functions on input voltages from 9 to 26 V.
Flying Objects Technologies also displayed its FOT100, a larger SDR with various anti-jamming technologies that include adaptive frequency hopping. Its additional functionalities over the FOTMini include configurability for operations on the 5.2 GHz band, with up to 33 dBm transmit power.“
