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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Italy Selects AAI's Shadow(R) 200 Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System

RQ-7B Shadow 200AAI Corporation, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announced today that Italy's Ministry of Defense (MoD) -- Directorate of General Aeronautical Armament has selected AAI's Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS) for the Italian Army.

Under this 51 million euro ($64 million) award, Italy will purchase four Shadow TUAS for deployment alongside NATO forces.

The Italian MoD's competitive procurement for TUAS identified several system requirements leading up to the selection of AAI's Shadow system.

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