Military Procurement International Vol. 18, No. 9, May 1, 2008
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GERMANY
Competition
for five MALE UAVs
The German BWB national armaments directorate has
launched a competition to supply the German
Air Force with five Medium Altitude, Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) for real-time theatre surveillance and reconnaissance missions
by 2010. The two contenders are the American General Atomics Predator B and the Israel Aerospace Industries Heron TP.
The new
MALE UAVs will supplement five Northrop
Grumman / EADS Eurohawk High Altitude, Long Endurance (HALE) UAVs, already
under contract, which will perform Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) for the German
Air Force. The Eurohawk is based on Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk.
Both the
MALE UAVs and the HALE UAVs are being procured under the System
zur Abbildenden Aufklärung in der Tiefe des EinsatzGebietes (SAATEG)
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