Australia shortlists rivals for RAN's MUAS programme

摘要

Australia's Department of Defence (DoD) has shortlisted five contenders for the first phase of a three-phase programme to acquire maritime unmanned aircraft systems (MUASs) for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). In a 23 March statement Marise Payne, who was acting defence minister at the time, said that the shortlisted companies for Project Sea 129 Phase 5 comprise Insitu Pacific, Northrop Grumman Australia, Raytheon Australia, Textron Systems Australia, and BAE Systems Australia. Although no aerial vehicles were mentioned in the statement, Textron is understood to be offering its Aerosonde V4/HQ system, Raytheon will team up with Schiebel Pacific to offer the Camcopter S-100, Insitu will offer its ScanEagle/Integrator family, Northrop Grumman will collaborate with Leonardo to offer the AWHero, while BAE Systems has yet to disclose its offering.