Qinetiq and Thales to offer Scorpion for ASDOT program

The British Ministry of Defense is procuring a red air and electronic warfare (EW) training service under the Air Support to Defense Operational Training (ASDOT) program and Qinetiq and Thales have decided to join hands and offer the Textron Airland’s Scorpion light attack aircraft as the platform.

Textron AirLand Scorpion at 2015 RIAT
By Tim Felce [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

The consortium says the Scorpion was selected after evaluations of 50 different aircraft types.