Australia's Orbital Corporation is taking aim at what it believes is a growing customer requirement within the tactical-class unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market for increased flexibility and versatility in platform design, as well as to facilitate vehicle deployment in operational settings, a company official told Jane's. Orbital Corporation initially won a USD91 million long-term contract in 2016 to develop and produce a bespoke heavy fuel engine for Boeing's Insitu subsidiary, under specific design and performance specifications laid down by the latter's propulsion engineering group. It is understood to be the first internal combustion propulsion system to be developed specifically for tactical UAV applications.
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机译：澳大利亚的Orbital Corporation正在瞄准战术级无人飞行器（UAV）市场中不断增长的客户需求，以提高平台设计的灵活性和通用性，并促进在操作环境中进行车辆部署告诉简的。 Orbital Corporation最初在2016年赢得了一笔9100万美元的长期合同，根据波音公司Insitu子公司的推进工程小组制定的具体设计和性能规格为其开发和生产定制的重型燃料发动机。据了解，这是专门为战术无人机应用开发的第一个内燃推进系统。
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