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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

SAAF funds Umbani

UmbaniThe South African Air Force has awarded Denel Dynamics a R282 74.20 contract for the development of a low-cost stand-off weapon system.

The work likely relate to the recent testing of the Umbani (meaning “lightning”) precision guided munition (PGM) bomb kit from a BAE Systems Hawk Mk120, making it the first indigenous guided weapon trialled from the lead-in fighter aircraft.

Denel Dynamics CE Jan Wessels last year May said the development of the bomb kit was being funded by the SAAF as a technology project. According to the Armscor Bulletin System some R34 820 015.31 was spent on the kit between 2008 and this month.

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