According to information published by Kratos on December 28, 2021, the company announced following the Government announcement that Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems (KUAS) has been awarded a contract modification to procure eight BQM-177A Subsonic Aerial Targets for the government of Saudi Arabia.
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BQM-177A Sub-Sonic Aerial Target (Picture source: U.S. Navy)
The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
The BQM-177A is the US Navy’s next-generation Sub-Sonic Aerial Target (SSAT). Capable of speeds in excess of 0.95 Mach and a sea-skimming altitude as low as 6.6 feet, the BQM-177A has no equal when it comes to delivering realistic anti-ship missile threat emulation.
This versatile aerial target supports a variety of mission requirements by carrying a wide array of internal and external payloads. These include proximity scoring, Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), passive and active RF augmentation, electronic counter-measures, infrared (IR) augmentation (plume pods), chaff and flare dispensers, and towed targets.