Egypt starts the production of Chinese Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ASN-209 for Egyptian armed forces.

Hamdy Weheba, the Chairman of the Arab Organization for Industrialization claimed this week that Egypt has started the production of the Chinese ASN-209 Multi-purpose UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System.

Chinese ASN-209 Multi-purpose UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (Source photo ASN Technology)

He claimed that although the UAVs are being built in collaboration with a foreign defence manufacturer, more than 99% of the components are locally manufactured. He claimed that with the latest manufacturing venture, Egypt is entering in to the second phase of mass ASN-209 production. He said that the six drones which they had built during the first phase are fully operational under the Egyptian armed forces. The drone was developed by ASN Technology Group, which is a specialized Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Research and development company based in China. ASN-209 UAV System is a multi-purpose UAV product with mature technology. Via data link and ground control subsystem, ASN-209 UAV can perform aerial reconnaissance, battle field survey, target location, destroy validation and artillery fire adjustment in day and night in real time. ASN-209 UAV System is consists of aircraft, airborne mission payload, GCS, launch and recovery equipment. ASN-209 uses digital flight control and navigation system, its flight control mode has manual, program and emergency control.It was GPS and data link to locate the aircraft. The system operation is easy to master. Source:http://www.armyrecognition.com