Australian-company Boresight announced on 29 June that it had shipped its largest ever order of Boresight BQ400 target Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) to an undisclosed US Government customer.
The milestone order – which includes 350 BQ400s – comes just three months after the Canberra based-company announced that it had completed its 1,000th BQ400 UAS.
The company’s order book, it said in April, means that it will likely deliver both its 2,000th and 3,000th units this calendar year, with the first milestone expected in coming months.
In addition to the undisclosed US Government customer, the BQ400 has been ordered and operated by, among others, EOS Defence Systems and the Australian Army.
According to the company the BQ400 can operate either independently or as part of a swarm in collaboration with other BQ400s.
Boresight is also developing the capability for BQ400s to mimic the command and control signatures of various popularly commercial available UAS systems to provide even more realistic training for the end-user.
In April, the company announced the creation of a US subsidiary, Boresight US, to serve the US market.
“At the moment, we’re shipping over 500 drones to the US a year,” Boresight CEO Justin Olde told the Huntsville Business Journal in April.
“But that number is accelerating rapidly. Our target to establish a manufacturing facility here is 2,000 to 3,000 drones a year,” he added.
The new manufacturing facility will be fed by an entirely American supply chain Olde went on to say.
“We will do full production–including the 3D printing, sourcing the supply chain, and everything else–through US sources,” Olde told the Huntsville Business Journal.