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FLIR Systems has received a $ 7.2 million U.S. Government Foreign Military Sale (FMS) order to equip the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) future fleet of Lockheed Martin C-130J tactical transports with AAQ-22 Star Safire III electro-optical/infrared sensors.
FLIR Systems will also give training and other related services along with its Star SAFIRE(R) III infrared multi-sensor surveillance systems.
This FMS order represents the first fixed-wing sale of FLIR’s multi-sensor systems to the Indian Ministry of Defense. Work on this order will be performed at FLIR’s facility in Wilsonville, Oregon and deliveries are expected to be completed by 2011.
FLIR System Inc. officials are pleased that the Indian Ministry of Defence has chosen FLIR products for their critical homeland security and national defence missions and look forward to collaborating with them in the future.
India is the first military buyer for the new-generation Hercules to include an EO/IR sensor suite in its order configuration with its selection of the Star Safire III following that of the US Coast Guard. The US Coastguard is also buying the system for some of its HC-130J long-range surveillance aircraft.
India has ordered Six C-130Js for the Indian Air Force with the service’s first example scheduled to emerge at Lockheed’s Marietta plant in Georgia during 2010.
FLIR Systems Inc. has not revealed how many sensors will be supplied under its new production contract, but New Delhi’s May 2007 Foreign Military Sales request for the C-130J deal listed a requirement for eight AAQ-22 systems, including two spares.
The US Special Operations Command’s planned HC/MC-130Js and some upgraded transports for the US Marine Corps are also expected to receive EO/IR sensors in the future.
FLIR Systems, Inc. is a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of thermal imaging and stabilized camera systems for a wide variety of thermography and imaging applications including; condition monitoring, research and development, manufacturing process control, airborne observation and broadcast, search and rescue, drug interdiction, surveillance and reconnaissance, navigation safety, border and maritime patrol, environmental monitoring and ground-based security.
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