Thales will deliver the first batch of Spy’Ranger fixed-wing mini unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to the French armament procurement agency Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) late in 2018, the company’s product line manager of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Pascal Sécretin told Jane’s on 30 May.
The DGA will then deliver them to the French Army in the first quarter of 2019 and deliveries will run until 2020.
The DGA awarded Thales a EUR104.3 million (USD117 million) contract in December 2016 for a batch of 35 systems, a 10 year maintenance, repair, and operations package (MRO), and an option for additional 35 systems.
Source: IHS Jane’s 360