IAI PLANS TO COMPETE WITH GLOBAL HAWK
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel plans to develop a strategic unmanned aerial vehicle meant to compete with the U.S.-origin Global Hawk.
The state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries has been developing the HALE-class UAV as a long-range strategic platform. IAI hopes to present the UAV as a low-cost alternative to the Global Hawk.
'We plan to offer HALE at a significantly lower cost than the Global Hawk,' Shlomo Tsach, head of IAI's aviation science administration, said.
In an address on Tuesday to a conference on robotics and UAVs at Tel Aviv University , Tsach said HALE, the acronym for high-altitude and long-endurance, would be capable of long-range strategic missions .
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