AAI has delivered six Shadow 600 unmanned air vehicles and their associated ground control station to Romania. The $20 million contract was the first to be financed by the US Government's new Defence Export Loan Guarantee programme. AAI has sold Shadow 600 systems to another, undisclosed, country, believed to be Taiwan, and hopes to close two more sales by the end of this year.
Source: Flight International
South Korea has opened a new production centre in Busan for the Korean Air Medium-Altitude Reconnaissance Unmanned Air Vehicle (MUAV).
Insitu has opened a new centre of excellence within Abu Dhabi’s Tawazun Industrial Park, boosting its ability to support the United Arab Emirates’ use of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS).
Fuelled by rampant speculation on the internet, US law enforcement agencies have received more than 5,000 reports of unknown drones operating over airspace along the Eastern Seaboard in recent weeks, with most turning out to be commercial aircraft or hobbyist drones.
