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Germany Opts for Manned Pegasus Platform

For the second time Germany has canceled plans to use a Global Hawk derivative to answer its Sigint requirements, and is now looking at the Global 6000.

Having decided that its Sigint requirements can be best met with a manned platform, Germany is keen on the Bombardier Global 6000. The type has already been selected for a number of special mission applications, including two Project Dolphin Sigint aircraft for the UAE.

January 29, 2020

Germany has finally abandoned its plans to acquire four Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton UAVs configured for signals intelligence (Sigint) at an estimated cost of $2.5 billion, after the U.S. Navy’s offer for the delivery of Triton aircraft expired in late December 2019. Instead, reports suggest that Germany will now procure three manned Bombardier Global 6000 special-mission aircraft, although no funding has yet been allocated.

Purchase of the Tritons was approved by the U.S. in 2018. The aircraft were intended to fly signals intelligence missions under the Persistent German Airborne Surveillance System (Pegasus) program and were to have been equipped with a Hensoldt ISIS-ZB Sigint sensor system derived from that originally designed by Airbus for the earlier, stillborn RQ-4E Euro Hawk. The same system will now be carried by the new Global 6000s.

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