Insitu Pacific to provide ScanEagle services to Royal Australian Navy

BRISBANE, Australia, July 12, 2012 — Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today it has extended and expanded its existing Australian Defence Force contract with the Australian Army to include the provision of ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) services for trials with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). ScanEagle will be installed on a number of RAN vessels commencing with a first-of-class flight trial on a Frigate in September 2012 “These trials will enable the RAN to examine the issues affecting an embarked UAS capability and to determine the installation requirements on board our vessels,” said RAN UAS Development Project Manager Lieutenant Commander Bob Ferry, “The RAN’s endorsed Aviation vision, NA2020, is to have a UAS dedicated unit by 2020, and these embarked UAS trials are an important step towards Navy achieving that vision. Insitu Pacific, and its parent company, Insitu Inc., have supported navies globally since 2004, accumulating nearly 25,000 shipboard flight hours including continued support to anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and ship-launched littoral surveillance operations during the Libyan conflict in 2011. The small operational footprint and runway-independence of Insitu UAS enable integration and operation on maritime vessels ranging from small multi-role vessels to […]
Insitu Pacific to provide ScanEagle services to Royal Australian Navy