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German Navy to field SeaGuardian unmanned aircraft
By Gareth Jennings | 19 December 2025

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Seen featuring its disctinctive underfuselage fairing for the Leonardo Seaspray 7500 surface search radar, the SeaGuardian has been approved for procurement by the German Navy. (Janes/Gareth Jennings)

The German Navy is to field the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc (GA-ASI) MQ-9B SkyGuardian/SeaGuardian unmanned aircraft system (UAS), the Budget Committee of the Bundestag disclosed.

The planned procurement was included in a wider tranche of approvals posted on 18 December, in which the committee noted the “procurement of MQ-9B drones for the German Navy for unmanned maritime reconnaissance and for submarine hunting with sonobuoys”.

The notification did not disclose proposed numbers or a delivery timeline. […]

https://www.janes.com/ (paywall)

Bleibt nur zu hoffen, dass man dieses Vorhaben nicht nutzt um die Stückzahl der zu beschaffenden EuroMALE Systeme zu reduzieren. Diese Marine wird immer amerikanischer…