Spacemetric delivered the video data management subsystem for the Swedish Army's UAV-03 Ornen (Eagle) in summer 2011, just 12 months after the original order from SAAB, the overall system integrator. The first of two Eagle systems, each consisting of four aircraft and the ground systems (launcher, control station, data management and exploitation), was deployed to Afghanistan only a few weeks later, providing a significant boost in the tactical surveillance capability of the Swedish ISAF contingent. This brought to a successful end a project combining the double challenge of technical ambition and a compressed timescale. Development of the new UAV leveraged tried and tested capabilities to minimise technical risk and to deliver on time.
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