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European Union expands UAV maritime surveillance service providers

5th November 2018 - 13:57 GMT | by Beth Stevenson in London

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Elbit Systems and CEiiA have become the latest team to be contracted to provide UAV services to support the European Union (EU) in monitoring waters across Europe

Contracted under a framework agreement by the European Maritime Services Agency (EMSA), Elbit’s Hermes 900 medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV will provide long-range surveillance in support of coast guard functions in the EU, under a deal that was awarded in September but only announced at the end of October.

‘They should have a high level of deployability and availability that should permit EMSA to offer operational capability and provide additional data streams to European

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Beth is a former senior reporter for Digital Battlespace and Unmanned Vehicles magazines. Beth graduated …

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