(Infodefensa.com) São Paulo - During a meeting last week in the Brazilian city of Salvador, capital of Bahia, the twelve member countries of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) reached a consensus and define a document of regional technical requirements of UAV system (stands for unmanned aerial Vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicle) in South America.
Among the agreed functions for future UAV system has been established that the sensors and all electronic components must be resistant to sudden changes in temperature and humidity. The countries of South America have also established that the UAV Unasur have a ground control system so flexible that allow performing long-haul flights, passing control to a ground station to another without interrupting the mission to overcome limits signal range.
The paper further autonomy for all countries to operate the system also provides minimum yields that will be required to bidder, referring to industries or consortia of companies that will be suppliers.
Unasur's interest for these systems became apparent in late 2011, and within the framework of an extraordinary meeting of the South American Defense Council (Unasur), composed by the General Secretariat of the Council, where ministers defense of the continent agreed to establish a working group to study the development and production of prototypes of unmanned aerial vehicles in the region.
In development in the South American Defense Council (CDS), the UAV Unasur's main objective is cooperation with the bloc and thus strengthening the defense industrial base in South America.
The twelve countries that make up Unasur are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.
