Canberra-based UAS manufacturer Boresight has secured a deal to sell more than $500,000 worth of its target drones to the US military.
This is the company’s largest single order from a North American military customer and is valued at US $383,275 (approx. A $532,000), covering 340 BQ-400 swarming-capable aerial target drones, ground control stations and an operator training course.
This order is triple the value of the customer’s previous purchase from Boresight.
Boresight Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Justin Olde said this repeat order was a testament to the ongoing effectiveness of Boresight’s aerial target drones in providing cost-effective, reliable and repeatable counter drone training.
“We have a number of North American military customers. However this particular client is a standard setting, training focused organisation that has broad influence over their entire military. They’ve looked at the available options and they keep coming back to Boresight,” he said.
“The ability to service this and other North American customers directly from our US facility means that our delivery lead times and costs are reduced, providing more responsiveness whilst driving down overheads.
“Support for this delivery will be provided from our Australian HQ where required, while we continue to ramp up operations at our expanded US facility.”
With the proliferation of drones in modern conflicts, military forces are lifting their capabilities for countering drone threats, delivering realistic training for personnel.
Where other companies have developed drones for surveillance and attack, Boresight saw a need for inexpensive quadcopter and other drones for testing of counter-drone systems and for training of their operators.
Boresight, based in the Canberra industrial suburb of Fyshwick, has sold more than 5000 of its systems over the past five years to defence forces and defence companies in 14 countries including the US, UK and Canada and others in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
To facilitate North American orders, it’s also moving production offshore, with the first US-produced drone emerging from a new facility in Huntsville, Alabama, in April.
The company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in June.
Drones for the new deal will be produced in Huntsville, with deliveries through to the end of the second quarter of FY27,
The order was received through US reseller Mountain Horse Solutions.