SA company competing in Brazilian defence tender

Denel, South Africa’s State-owned defence industrial group, has responded to a Request for Information (RfI) from the Brazilian Air Force regarding Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance missions. The South African company was one of nine across the world to receive the RfI.

Brazil is seeking to acquire both UAVs and UAV technologies (the country has successfully developed its own, hand-launched, micro-UAVs, but has not yet produced anything on the scale of Denel’s products).

Brazil’s defence minister recently listed this UAV project as one of his country’s top defence programmes, along with new submarines for the navy and new armoured personnel carriers for the army.

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