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.... The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Regina, SK has a requirement for the supply and delivery of an Aerovironment QUBE Unmanned Aircraft System, with an option to purchase two additional units.
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Only known supplier
Aerovironment Ltd
181 W. Huntington Drive
Suite 202
Monrovia, CA
91016
Estimated Value - $270,427.50 Cdn
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More on QUBE UAS here, and more from Postmedia News here:
The RCMP are planning to expand their fleet of remote-controlled “eyes in the sky,” and for the first time, they’re looking south of the border to a company that has been a major supplier of unmanned aerial vehicles for the U.S. military.
Southern California-based AeroVironment Inc. builds tiny fixed-wing drones, which have been a staple of the U.S. Defense Department’s arsenal in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.
But it also produces a line of four-rotor helicopters — called Qubes — that are tailor-made for use by police. Small enough to fit in the trunk of a car and controlled using touch-screen tablets, these toy-like machines are equipped with live-stream video cameras and thermal-imaging technology to give police a bird’s eye view of an accident scene and aid in search-and-rescue operations.
RCMP’s F Division in Saskatchewan, which has taken a lead role testing unmanned aircrafts for the force, just posted on a government-contracting website notice of its intent to acquire as many as three Qubes and related accessories for about $270,000 ....