The ScanEagle systems considerably increase their intelligence collection and reconnaissance ability and developed by Insitu Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing company. ScanEagle carries a stabilized electro-optical and\/or infrared camera on a lightweight inertial stabilized turret system, and an integrated communications system having a range of over 62 miles (100 km); it has a flight endurance of over 20 hours.<\/p>\n
VnExpress noted that the sale will be supported through U.S. Foreign Military Financing and the recipient will be the Vietnamese Coast Guard, Yeong Tae Pak, Boeing\u2019s marketing director for defense sales in Southeast Asia, said Wednesday at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sale is in progress,\u201d British security magazine Jane\u2019s quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n
The number of UAVs to be bought is not known.<\/p>\n
Yeong said the deal is as an indicator of Boeing\u2019s defense sales strategy in newer regional markets like Vietnam, where opportunities to grow its defense presence is \u201cbeing pursued through lower-tier platforms.\u201d Read more:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mar 31, 2019 in Aviation, News
\nVietnam wants to purchase an US-made ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicles for use in Vietnam Coast Guard, according to VnExpress.net.
\nAccording to media reports in recent weeks, Boeing is close to sealing a deal to ScanEagle sell unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}