Czech Primoco UAV to Supply Malaysia’s GIAAN GROUP with Navigational Calibration System for Airports

by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby

Czech UAV manufacturer Primoco UAV has signed a contract to supply Malaysian company GIAAN GROUP with a new NAVAID calibration system. This calibration solution is utilized by the Primoco UAV One 150 UAVs, and has applications in the inspection, calibration and evaluation of a range of airport navigation equipment including ILS/VOR/DME/TACAN/COM, as well as visual tools such as PAPI/VASI. GIAAN seeks to leverage the system to conduct calibration missions at airports within the Southeast Asia region. The EUR 3.7 million contract also includes the purchase of two One 150 UAVs.

Primoco UAV is the manufacturer of One 150 civilian and military unmanned aircraft.  The One 150 is a heavy weight cargo drone with a max take-off weight of 150 kg (about 330 pounds), flight endurance of 15 hours, and a range of 2000 km or 1242 miles.  With a 30 kg (66 pound) payload, Primoco  focuses on civil and military applications including energy, border and first responder and disaster recovery operations.

“While existing UAV calibration solutions typically use miniaturized hardware that does not always handle actual transmitter and receiver data, Primoco UAV One 150 carries the identical calibration and measurement equipment as manned platforms,” said Primoco UAV SE CEO Ladislav Semetkovský. “This significantly reduces the cost of the precise ICAO standard output that customers require from air navigation calibration missions.”

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Ian attended Dominican University of California, where he received a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong passion for writing and storytelling and a keen interest in technology, he is now contributing to DroneLife as a staff writer.