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US okays delivery of drones to Pakistan

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US okays delivery of drones to Pakistan
October 06, 2015
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ISLAMABAD - The United States has approved supply of short-range, unarmed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ScanEagle to help Pakistan in intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance capability in its counter-terrorism operations.
According to reports, hardware and technical data will be delivered to Pakistan under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme by August 2016. It was further reported that 90% of the work will be carried out in the USA and the remaining 10% in Pakistan. Pakistan will receive ScanEagle system through a deal worth $10.52 million.
ScanEagle carries a stabilised electro-optical and/or infrared camera on a lightweight inertial stabilised turret system, and an integrated communications system having a range of over 62 miles (100 km). It has a flight endurance of over 20 hours.
It is designed to provide high quality real-time ground imaging through adverse weather conditions or other battlefield obscurants.

read carefully. only hardware and software will be delivered. not the scan-eagle itself. it only means that Pakistan will fit this hardware and software on its own drones.
 
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read carefully. only hardware and software will be delivered. not the scan-eagle itself. it only means that Pakistan will fit this hardware and software on its own drones.

Sir as far as I can tell after reading the article, we are getting the birds too. That is why 90% of the work is being done in states and only final assembly of different components will be done in-country.

Also the price seems to confirm 3 systems with training -- US $ 3.2M for set of four drones, one ground control station, one superwedge launcher and skyhook drone retrieval system. This works out to be 9.6M. I'm guessing here that the rest of 0.9M is for in country training and documentation.
 
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