Deliveries under the contract began in 2011. In December 2010, the company received a $4.9m contract from the Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation for small raven UAS, spares, training services and logistics support. In May 2010, AeroVironment was awarded an $11.2m contract by the US Army to supply 63 new digital Raven UASs.
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In the following month, AeroVironment received another order worth $12.3m for providing 216 retrofit kits to upgrade the existing analogue Raven systems with a new digital data link.
In March 2010, AeroVironment received a $6.7m contract from the US Army for the supply of 51 digital Raven systems, spare packages, and logistics support services. Deliveries of upgraded digital Raven UAVs The company was awarded with a $13m contract by the US Air Force in September 2018, for the delivery of RQ-11B Raven systems to support the countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. In October 2015, AeroVironment secured an $18.5m order from the US Army for the supply of Raven systems, spare parts, and logistics services for seven allied nations, under the foreign military sales (FMS) programme.
A $47m contract was also awarded for RQ-11B Raven and RQ-20A Puma AEs in the same month. The US Army awarded a $3.4m contract to AeroVironment for the supply of RQ-11B Raven UAVs to the Spanish Ministry of Defense in August 2015. The advanced digital Raven system offers higher communication security through signal encryption. In February 2010, the US Department of Defence awarded a $37.8m contract to AeroVironment to design and develop advanced digital Ravens, retrofit kits and spare parts, and provide repair and training services to the US Army and the US Marine Corps (USMC). The US Army and Marine Corps placed a $23.9m order with AeroVironment in December 2009 for upgrading the existing systems with digital Raven systems and kits. The contract also includes supplying spare parts and digital data link (DDL) retrofit systems for 206 existing Raven systems. The US Army ordered 50 RQ-11B Raven systems in February 2009 as part of the $16.8m contract. Around 72 Raven B systems were acquired by the Netherlands Ministry of Defence for $23.74m. In September 2007, about 12 Raven B systems were procured by the Royal Danish Army, of which three were delivered to Huntsmen Corps and the remaining were deployed at the artillery centre for training purposes. Deliveries under the contract were concluded in 2015. The contract also includes upgrades for system improvements over the life of the programme.Īpproximately 70% of the Raven systems were delivered to the US Army by April 2011. In 2010, the contract was increased to 2,358 Raven systems. The winning contract included the supply of 2,182 Raven systems along with the ground control system and three air vehicles. RQ-11B Raven UAV orders and deliveriesĪeroVironment won the small unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAV) programme competition organised by the US Army in October 2005. The RQ-11B Raven received a military-type classification certificate from the Netherlands Military Aviation Authority in November 2009. It assists in performing surveillance and target acquisition over a large area, while providing infra-red laser rays illuminated or emitted by the ground targets. The UAV completed its maiden flight in October 2001 and entered service in May 2003.įlying at an altitude of 100ft to 500ft, the Raven B provides real-time colour or infra-red imagery to the ground control and remote viewing units. The UAV is hand-launched, which lands safely through auto-piloting without the need for landing gear and prepared landing strips. The vehicle captures and transmits medium-resolution imagery to a ground control unit (GCU) through a digital data link (DDL).
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