DroneShield has been contracted to provide counter-UAS (C-UAS) protection for the 30th Southerneast Asian Games in the Philippines, the company announced on 18 November.
The company will provide a number of its C-UAS solutions for the games, which are expected to include 11 participating nations and approximately 9,000 athletes. The event is set to take place from 30 November 2019 to 11 December 2019.
Oleg Vornik, CEO, DroneShield, said: ‘Mass crowd events are a core market for DroneShield, with our prior deployments including the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games and ASEAN over the recent year alone.’
AeroVironment has been dropped from the hunt to provide the US Army with a Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS), leaving Griffon Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Sierra Nevada and Textron Systems in the running.
At FEINDEF in Madrid, Navantia, SAES and Perseo announced an intention to develop a line of uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs).
The UK MoD has released a request for information on small armed UAS which could be used by the British Army.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) has delivered the first new build MQ-9 Extended Range (ER) to the US Marine Corps (USMC).
The US has landed an MQ-9 Reaper UAV on a highway for the first time as part of Exercise Agile Chariot.
AeroVironment has introduced the Puma VTOL kit, designed for plug-and-play integration into Puma 2 AE and Puma 3 AE small uncrewed aircraft systems.
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