BAE Systems highlighted a number a key projects they have been working on at this year's Farnborough Air Show such as a new remote-controlled drone that will be used for surveillance.
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00:00This is basically a bar which is an ISR platform which basically gathers intelligence, surveillance and other sorts of information.
00:10So, it's been recently built through trials where it was able, 24 hours to 66,000 feet,
00:20so it just gathers information and data for the whole time and then obviously that data will be analysed
00:27and depending on what the data is to be collected, we'll be able to use it for recording.
00:36The real size of it, it's 35 metres long, it's huge and it's built down at a place called Prismatic, a company that we bought.
00:46What's really good is for apprentices like Jess and Josh here, there's lots of placements where you can go down and work with Prismatic,
00:55be part of the team kind of developing the factory technology because it's a solar aircraft
01:00and even maybe find your way out to some of the flight trials that happen in New Mexico,
01:05so it's just a very exciting new project for people and it's a sustainability led, it's an electric aircraft,
01:11it's doing something completely new, it's exciting isn't it?
01:15Absolutely, yeah.