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UAV Project “Falcon” tranferred to HARPIA
Avibras and Harpia Sistemas joint to develop UAV Market in Brazil
EMBRAER + AEL + AVIBRAS = Falcon UAV at HARPIA.
A company with no product received an advanced platform for flight control: FALCAO UAV Project.
Sao Paulo, 5 feb 2013 – EMBRAER Defesa e Segurança and its associated AEL Sistemas S.A., subsidiary of israeli ELBIT Systems Ltd., announced the joint of AVIBRAS Division on HARPIA Sistemas S.A., in order to develop in a joint way, UAV Market in Brazil. Thus, AVIBRAS will have 9% of shares while AEL Sistemas have 40% of the shares. EMBRAER Defesa e Segurança remain as mayor shareholder, with 51% of the shares.
Under the agreement signed between the three companies, HARPIA will also count on the Falcon project in its product line, which reinforces the content of national partnership. FALCON is being developed by Avibras for Brazilian Armed Forces use and will be able to conduct reconnaissance, target acquisition, fire control support, damage assessment, land and maritime surveillance.
"AVIBRAS junction increases national participation in HARPIA Systems, which now meets all the requirements of a Strategic Defense Company, in accordance with the law 12,598," said Luiz Carlos Aguiar, President of Embraer Defense and Security and Chairman of the Board Administration of the Harpia. "Moreover, HARPIA will feature the expertise of AVIBRAS."
“The technical and industrial synergy of the three companies, added to the legacy of high-tech national Project Falcon, will result in a solution of high competitiveness on UAV in Brazil and abroad”, said Sami Hassuani, president of AVIBRAS.
"AVIBRAS brings the best know-how which was developed independently in Brazilian UAV. It makes HARPIA, which already had extensive capabilities of AEL and Embraer, a company that aggregates all the necessary elements development in Brazil successfully last generation UAVs that will meet the needs of our country ", said Shlomo Erez, AEL Sistemas President.
About AVIBRAS Founded in 1961, Avibras is a 100% national company specializing in engineering, which designs, develops and manufactures products for the civilian and defense markets. Their extensive product line includes systems for defense artillery rockets, guided autonomous missiles, air defense systems, aircrafts weapons systems, armored military vehicles, UAVs, vehicle command and control and integration of complex systems.
About AEL Systems (www.ael.com.br) is a Brazilian company based in Porto Alegre. For over two decades, is dedicated to the design, development, manufacture, maintenance and logistical support of electronics, military and civilian, for applications in aircraft, land and sea, manned and unmanned. In 2001, AEL Sistemas became a subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., the largest manufacturer of defense of Israel, whose property is not the Israeli government, in 2011 Embraer Defense and Security has acquired 25% of AEL Sistemas.
About Embraer Defense and Security: With over 40 years of experience in providing superior platforms and systems for the Armed Forces around the world, Embraer Defense and Security has a growing presence in the global market and fulfills a strategic role in the defense system of Brazil. The portfolio of Embraer Defense and Security includes military aircraft, radar technologies for next-generation unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems and advanced information and communication applications such as Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR). Embraer aircrafts and military solutions are present in more than 50 armed forces of 48 countries.
Acauã project development between AVIBRAS and CTA is the intelligent part of AVIBRAS Falcon Project. Its takeoff and landing are automatically.
Falcao UAV from AVIBRAS at LAAD 2011. photo - DefesaNet
Brazilian Airforce and Space Intitute (IAE), from DCTA, made trieals of Projeto DPA-VANT, with ACAUA prototype groud runs. The main goal of those trials were the aquisition of data to identify parameters to automaticaly control the uav in ground. photo - Agencia FAB
Source: DefesaNet