Trials for Watchkeeper UAV
Israeli UAV Hermes demonstrated; part of the U.K.£800 million project to provide the British Army with UAVs for all-weather, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance use
Israel’s Rosh Pina airport was temporarily closed the other day when trials were carried out on an Elbit Systems UAV. Britain had objected to the trials being conducted at the Golan Piq airfield on the Golan Heights, where the trials were originally planned.
Haaretz’s Zohar Blumenkrantz writes that the UAVs are part of the British defense ministry’s Watchkeeper project, an £800 million project to provide the British Army with UAVs for all-weather, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance use. The Watchkeeper, based on the Elbit Hermes 450 UAV, is expected to begin operating in 2010.
