The Spanish Marine Infantry Brigade deployed its SEEKER aircraft during the FTX-BRIMAR 21 manoeuvres in December 2021, the manufacturers GMV and Aurea Avionics write in a press release. The SEEKER system was deployed in the scope of the RAPAZ programme led by the Subdirectorate-General for Planning, Technology and Innovation.
According to the companies, the SEEKER was able to deploy smoothly and enabled the brigade to locate targets both day and night thanks to its dual payload, complete with both a thermal and visible camera. During the exercises, the SEEKER processed available data sources to supplement the video with information of use to all deployed troops. The video and data generated was distributed in real time to the control station using the VidStream data transmission system using the integrated RF-7800H-MP radios from L3 Harris.
This UAS, developed and produced by GMV and Aurea Avionics, has an endurance of 90 minutes, a range of 15 km and a weight of 3.5 kg. Both the Spanish Navy and the Spanish Army received the first SEEKER UAS units to reinforce the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities of the Marine Infantry Protection Force and the Spanish Army’s “Almogávares” VI Paratrooper Brigade.
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