In a mission on behalf of the European agency #Frontex, on 20 June the Falco #EVO helped to identify a ship suspected of carrying irregular migrants On 20 June Leonardo's Falco EVO drone was used in a monitoring operation in the Mediterranean Sea which involved a boat with irregular migrants, as part of an activity of the European agency [...]
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The flight campaign of the Falco EVO, Leonardo's remotely piloted aircraft, in a specific configuration for maritime monitoring, from Lampedusa airport as part of the Frontex program aimed at experimenting with drones for the control of the external borders of the 'European Union. Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency, is in fact [...]
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The Falco EVO, Leonardo's Remotely-Piloted Air System (RPAS), has successfully completed new flight tests in Bulgaria. The objective of the campaign is the field verification of a series of updates to extend the flight time and operational range of the platform in the context of land and sea missions. The [...]
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Leonardo, during the Dubai Airshow 2017, announced the first delivery of the Falco EVO, Remote Pilot Air System (SAPR), to its launch customer, a country in the Middle East. The first of the new production aircraft was completed in August with the acceptance test completed in Italy at Ronchi [...]
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