Germany said to be buying Heron TP

Cologne-based newspaper “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” reported on Jan. 12 that the German government is buying the Heron TP unmanned aerial vehicle.

4X-UMI David Tobarra
By David Tobarra [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Since 2010, IAI had been leasing three airframes to the Luftwaffe in a joint partnership with Rheinmetall. The contract expired last year and Airbus had teamed with IAI to offer a new lease to the Bundeswehr or for Germany to buy over the UAVs.

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