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Joint missions for Hermes

9th February 2011 - 15:00 GMT | by Andrew White in London

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Elbit Systems has demonstrated a ‘series’ of joint flight missions with Hermes 450 and 900 UAVs, controlled from a single Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS), the company announced today.

On 9 February, the two airframes conducted a pair of missions from Pic air field in the Golan Heights, Israel and involved transmission of imagery, ELINT and COMINT.

A spokesperson for the company told UV that the tests were designed to prove that ‘two different missions, from two different UAVs, could be transmitted and gathered to the same control station’.

Flights comprised around five hours duration each with the airframes operating

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