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Farnborough: Insitu to extend family with larger platform

9th July 2014 - 11:00 GMT | by Andrew White in Seattle

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Insitu has revealed plans to develop its largest-ever UAV in order to answer evolving requirements of military forces operating in Africa and Asia-Pacific.

According to Ryan Hartman, senior VP for programmes at Insitu, the company is designing and a more powerful Integrator variant which will see its maximum take-off weight increase from 135lb to 165lb. The larger model will be able to carry a 65lb payload, compared to the existing 40lb capacity.

‘As we see the demand for our systems in support of [US} operations in the Middle-East start to decline, we need to make sure that we’re making

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