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Sagem: successful Acceptance Test Flights for the French SDTI UAV

Paris, January 12th 2004 -- The SDTI (Système de Drones Tactiques Intérimaire – Interim Tactical UAV System) which will equip the French Land Forces from mid 2004 and on, has completed its acceptance flight test campaign at the flight test centre of Istres (South of France). The system has performed, within the planned schedule, all the acceptance tests required by the French DGA. The performance validation flights have been carried out in an airspace shared with the numerous civil and military users of the Istres base, a "première" in France. The STDI system has thus demonstrated its operational performance, reliability and capability to operate safely in an airspace managed by ATC (Air Traffic Control). During the flights the UAVs have delivered high resolution images, in particular of the flooded areas in the Rhône Delta.

As a matter of interest, it should be noted that a SPERWER system, very similar to the French SDTI is currently being operated, since the end of October, in Kabul, by the Canadian Army for the benefit of the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF).

The SPERWER system corresponds to the “I-S-T-A-R” TUAV concept (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance). Meeting the basic TUAV requirements for automation, mobility, modularity, growth potential and certification, SPERWER is considered as the reference in the field of tactical UAVs and has been chosen to equip the Land Forces of six nations, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, France, Greece and Canada.

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Groupe Sagem is an internationally based high-technology group. The second largest French group in the field of telecommunications, the third European company in electronics for defense and security, the world leader in fingerprint-based biometrics, major actor in avionics and information systems for aircraft, Sagem maintains a presence in more than 20 countries.

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