The Government of Singapore has invested in a “multimillion dollar” contract for High Speed Aerial Target Drones from the California-based engineering company, Composite Engineering Inc..
The Ministry of Defence in Singapore has agreed the purchase of BQM-167Xi target drones along with supporting logistics, spares, training and ground support equipment. The high subsonic sub-scale aerial target system is a variant of the drone package recently selected by the US Navy.
6 metres long and with a wingspan of 3.3 metres, the comparative BQM-167A can withstand up to 9 g’s, maintain flights for over 3 hours and carry payloads on each wing.
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California, a western U.S. state, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles. Its terrain includes cliff-lined beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central Valley farmland and the Mojave Desert. The city of Los Angeles is the seat of the Hollywood entertainment industry. Hilly San Francisco is known for the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and cable cars.
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