French Made rotary wing UAV "Peregrine"to provide a protective ‘eye in the sky’ capability for UK

Thales and Schiebel are collaborating to bring together a combined 30 years of experience in UAS design, integration, test and operations. They provide a reliable system enabling flexible and persistent ISR capability for maritime focused mission that can deliver enhanced ISR intelligence for sensor directly to combat management system.
Beginning of 2023, Thales and Schiebel have been awarded a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence to deliver a game changing rotary wing Uncrewed Air System (UAS) to provide a protective ‘eye in the sky’ capability for Royal Navy warships.
The contract for the Peregrine system will see a rotary-powered UAS, fitted with powerful naval surveillance sensors suite, deployed to help protect a Type 23 frigate on operational tasking.
Thales will act as the lead systems integrator for the programme that brings together an unrivalled combination of proven UAS capability from Schiebel and a range high precision intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors and systems from Thales.
Schiebel will provide its operationally proven CAMCOPTER® S-100, a highly-effective uncrewed air system which already has more than 120,000 operating hours, including demanding deck-launched operations in challenging winds and sea states.
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