LONDON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- The Boeing Co. and Israel's Aeronautics Defense Systems are teaming to market internationally the DA42 Dominator unmanned aircraft system.
Aeronautics and Austria's Diamond have been developing the Dominator, based on an unmanned version of the Diamond's Aircraft DA-42 twin-star two-engine aircraft for two years.
The publication Defense Update reported the aircraft has been flown with an advanced payload configuration, carrying a wide area electro-optical aerial surveillance payload providing potential users unique persistent coverage of large areas.
Chris Chadwick, president of Boeing Military Aircraft, said collaboration with Aeronautics to market the DA42 Dominator will expand Boeing's offering with a wider range of medium-altitude, long-endurance solutions to current and potential customers.
Diamond Aircraft offers the manned aerial surveillance platform -- Guardian for law enforcement, homeland security and civilian missions. As a manned platform, Guardian can fly in civilian airspace, where UAVs cannot.
The DA42 Dominator is designed for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions with an all-composite construction that provides durability, reduced maintenance and lower aircraft weight to enhance mission endurance.
