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General Atomics eyes up Canada for SkyGuardian

1st June 2018 - 10:15 GMT | by Ian Keddie in Ottawa

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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA‑ASI) announced the launch of Team SkyGuardian Canada during the CANSEC 2018 trade show.

Team SkyGuardian will offer the MQ-9B for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) project.

GA-ASI’s MQ-9B SkyGuardian incorporates Canadian companies as part of Team SkyGuardian including CAE Canada, MDA and L3 Wescam. 

Shephard spoke to Aria Mahdion, international business development at GA-ASI, who outlined the relationships that the team brings together, ‘We’ve actually been working with Canadian industry for a very long time. CAE has been a partner of ours for some time, we’ve worked with them

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Ian Keddie is a Shephard correspondent based in Toronto, Canada.

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