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Hermes bags new customer in Philippines

23rd August 2018 - 09:14 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Hong Kong

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The Philippines is expected to receive a first Hermes 450 MALE UAV from Elbit Systems sometime before the year’s end. 

The first aircraft ‘was supposed to arrive in August 2018’, but delays in payment by the Department of Budget Management had pushed back the original schedule, the Philippine blogsite MaxDefense Philippines revealed on 22 August.

Elbit promised early delivery of one UAV to the Philippines, which can be used for training purposes.

The government-to-government contract for four units of the Hermes 450 and associated ground control station was signed in April under Horizon 2 of the Armed Forces of the

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