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09-18-2004, 05:09 AM
French firm keen to jointly produce UAV
Aroosa Alam
Newyork—According to defence officials, French firm SAGEM is keen to enter into a joint venture with National Development Complex (now part of NESCOM) and Air Weapons Complex (AWC) for joint development and manufacturing of advance Battlefield and Strategic Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).
According to well placed sources, Pakistan has agreed to import at least two “Sperwer” UAVs from France with complete transfer of technology. Sperwer is currently used by Holland, Sweden, Denmark, France, Greece and Canada. Sources said that deal is almost finalised and Pakistan will soon get the delivery of Sperwer. The French UAV has an impressive system integrator, with 45-80 kg of payload, FAR33 65HP engine, six to twelve endurance hours, 200 km of real time mission radious and automatic parachute recovery. Highly stealth Sperwer is all weather UAV having airworthiness certification of JAR and VLA. It has the alternative payload position of SAR, ELINT, jamming airborne relay weapons.
Pakistan already has considerable experience in the development and production of various types of Battlefield UAV’s some of which are already with Pakistan Army and Air Force service. Pakistani firms have also been able to clinch orders from foreign customers, the biggest of which involves the supply of unspecified number of Jasoos Battlefield UAV’s and associated equipment to Saudi Arabia by Pakistani company SATUMA. Another Pakistani company Integrated Dynamics also won a contract to supply mini-UAV system ‘Border Eagle’ to US Homeland Border Control.
It is believed that NDC is now developing a long-range strategic UAV with a range of 600 km, though currently there is an ongoing debate in defence circles if some foreign UAV system should be imported to fulfil the strategic UAV role or if Pakistan should solely rely on its own private and public defence firms to deliver a solution.
Link (http://www.pakobserver.net/200409/17/view/?page=1&id=5)
Aroosa Alam
Newyork—According to defence officials, French firm SAGEM is keen to enter into a joint venture with National Development Complex (now part of NESCOM) and Air Weapons Complex (AWC) for joint development and manufacturing of advance Battlefield and Strategic Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).
According to well placed sources, Pakistan has agreed to import at least two “Sperwer” UAVs from France with complete transfer of technology. Sperwer is currently used by Holland, Sweden, Denmark, France, Greece and Canada. Sources said that deal is almost finalised and Pakistan will soon get the delivery of Sperwer. The French UAV has an impressive system integrator, with 45-80 kg of payload, FAR33 65HP engine, six to twelve endurance hours, 200 km of real time mission radious and automatic parachute recovery. Highly stealth Sperwer is all weather UAV having airworthiness certification of JAR and VLA. It has the alternative payload position of SAR, ELINT, jamming airborne relay weapons.
Pakistan already has considerable experience in the development and production of various types of Battlefield UAV’s some of which are already with Pakistan Army and Air Force service. Pakistani firms have also been able to clinch orders from foreign customers, the biggest of which involves the supply of unspecified number of Jasoos Battlefield UAV’s and associated equipment to Saudi Arabia by Pakistani company SATUMA. Another Pakistani company Integrated Dynamics also won a contract to supply mini-UAV system ‘Border Eagle’ to US Homeland Border Control.
It is believed that NDC is now developing a long-range strategic UAV with a range of 600 km, though currently there is an ongoing debate in defence circles if some foreign UAV system should be imported to fulfil the strategic UAV role or if Pakistan should solely rely on its own private and public defence firms to deliver a solution.
Link (http://www.pakobserver.net/200409/17/view/?page=1&id=5)