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United Kingdom orders additional Zephyr aircraft

Madrid, Spain - The S model will be delivered ready for flight trials in summer 2017

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence has announced its intention to exercise an option for the manufacture and operation of a third Airbus Zephyr S High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) unit. Flying at some 65,000ft, the ultra-lightweight Zephyr S is capable of providing persistent surveillance or communications over the same area of land or sea for weeks at a time without landing. The precise p...

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Rome, Italy, 08/31/2016 18:40
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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