French defense electronics maker Thales is teaming up with U.S. startup Skydweller Aero, which makes a solar-powered drone with the wingspan of a Boeing 747, to offer an unmanned maritime-patrol aircraft that can remain on station for weeks to months at a time.
The package offered by the two companies will feature the same AI-powered radar that equips the French Navy’s Atlantique 2 crewed maritime-patrol aircraft, said Philippe Duhamel, Thales executive vice president for defense-mission systems, at the Paris Air Show on June 18, after the firms signed a memorandum of understanding.
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