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Japan Coast Guard Ordered a 3rd Falcon 2000 Maritime Surveillance Aircraft from Dassault Aviation
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| French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation announced today during its annual results the order of a third Maritime Surveillance FALCON 2000 by the Japanese coast guards. | |||
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 Japan Selected the Falcon 2000 MSA, based on a Falcon 2000 LXS (range 4000 NM)Image: Dassault Aviation |
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| Dassault Aviation announced in April 2015 that Japan Coast Guard selected the Falcon 2000 Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) to enhance its operational fleet. The Falcon 2000 MSA, based on a Falcon 2000 LXS (range 4000 NM), is designed for a broad range of missions including maritime surveillance, piracy control, drug interdiction, fishery patrol, law enforcement, search and rescue, intelligence and reconnaissance. It offers the best combination of size, payload, speed, range and acquisition and operating costs on the market. For this customer, Dassault is partnering with L-3 Platform Integration and THALES. Japan Coast Guard was formerly operating two Falcon 900 MSA. Dassault Aviation also offers to Navy customer another variant: the Falcon 2000 MRA During the same press conference, as far as naval programs go, Dassault Aviation also announced: - the delivery of 2 Naval RAFALE retrofitted to the F3 standard to French navy (in 2016) - the continuation of development works on the F3-R standard - the continued development works to upgrade the combat system on the ATLANTIQUE 2 - a new flight test program for the nEUROn unmanned fighter aircraft, dedicated to stealth demonstrations, as well as tests at sea with the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier |
Japan Coast Guard Ordered a 3rd Falcon 2000 Maritime Surveillance Aircraft from Dassault Aviation
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