Selex ES awarded a contract of over 40 million Euros for Falco System in a Middle East Country

Selex ES, a Finmeccanica company, signed a contract of over 40 million Euros to deliver the Falco system
to a Middle East Country. The Company will provide operational and maintenance support to the Customer
for 12 months of the Contract performance, as well.

Falco is an operationally proven, tactical, medium altitude, medium endurance Unmanned Aerial System for
defence and security surveillance applications, designed to supply a net-centric command and control with a
tactical overview of the operational scenario and target cueing in real time.

Currently operated by a range of international customers in diverse and extreme climate and geographical
conditions, the Falco system is a field proven asset that can be easily integrated within existing air
management infrastructures and is delivered to its customers with a comprehensive set of operational and
logistic support services including pilots, sensors and mechanical operators training, advanced logistic
support, battlelab simulators for CONOPS development.

A comprehensive suite of payloads, including AESA radar and electro optic turrets, equip Falco to perform a
24/7 all-weather wide range of missions. It features ramp take-off, fully automatic short take-off and landing
capabilities and day/night flight and navigation, plus a NATO compliant Ground Control Station enabling
mission planning, re-tasking and data exploitation.

Falco's reliability, maturity, flexibility and extended capability allows the vehicle to perform roles at the top
end of the tactical UAS category. The system features a fault-tolerant architecture which addresses the
European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) airworthiness guidelines for both civil and military oriented
products. The aircraft can be flown in manual and in fully automatic mode, including automatic take off and
landing operations.

The ground data terminal provides a higher-than-200km redundant link range between the GCS and the
Falco air vehicle, through a jam-resistant option data transmission in real time.

"We welcome this new contract for our field proven Falco UAS that confirms the operational reliability and
performance of the system, from the sensors to the mission system, -delivering outstanding 24/7 all weather,
day and night surveillance said Fabrizio Giulianini, CEO of Selex ES, adding "This year has been an exciting
year for our UAS capability, thanks to follow on contracts for our unmanned surveillance service business,
flight campaigns of our top of the range Falco EVO and the acquisition of a launch customer for our platform
agnostic SkyISTAR mission system".

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