DSEI 2015: New approach for Watchkeeper exports
With the Watchkeeper unmanned aerial system (UAS) currently vying for possible contracts in France and Poland, manufacturer Thales has set out at DSEI how it plans to make the platform more exportable in the future.
Under an initiative Thales has dubbed ‘Watchkeeper X’, the company revealed how it is configuring the Watchkeeper platform to be much more adaptable to indigenous technologies, including open architectures to ease system integration.
Pierre Eric Pommellet, executive vice-president of Thales’ Defence Mission Systems, said the company’s new approach was a response to the rapidly evolving market for tactical UAVs, which is becoming more demanding
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