Unmanned Air Vehicles
(asked on 11th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much her Department has spent on the acquisition of Black Hornet drones.
This question was answered on 17th July 2019
The Army first purchased 160 Black Hornet 1 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in 2011 as part of a £20 million contract with FLIR UAS (formerly Prox Dynamics). The systems were used on operations in Afghanistan, but that capability has since been phased out. In 2019 the Army purchased 90 of the upgraded Black Hornet 3 UAS at a contract value of £1.7 million. There is no intention to deploy the capability on operations at this time.