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On the 3rd, AD Systems, a defense industry company specializing in small stealth drones, announced that it has secured a large-scale supply contract for training personnel to operate army drones.
AD Systems signed a commercial drone (Type II) purchase (manufacturing) contract with the Armed Forces Central Contract Office on the 30th of last month. The contract value is approximately 87 billion won, and the delivery period runs from the date of contract signing until December 27. Under this agreement, AD Systems will supply a total of 3,792 training drones, model 'AD-ME1', to designated army units.
This project is a defense power support initiative aimed at upgrading the army's drone education and training systems and cultivating systematic drone operation personnel. The Ministry of National Defense has selected three domestic companies as part of its '500,000 Drone Warriors' policy and plans to introduce approximately 11,000 training commercial drones by the end of this year through these companies. The three selected firms are AD Systems, Aerix, and Prenu.
AD Systems explained that it was awarded this contract after being recognized for its technological competitiveness and reliability across all aspects of the project, including domestic component localization rates, the level of Yangsan infrastructure development, quality management systems, and test evaluation results.
Established in 2019, AD Systems is a defense industry company that independently handles the entire unmanned aircraft development process, from airframe design and composite material manufacturing to flight control and avionics software development, as well as system integration. Based at its main office in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, and its factory and corporate research institute in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, the company develops various unmanned systems, including VTOL fixed-wing platforms and training multi-rotors. Notably, it has secured defense-specific core technologies such as low-observability (stealth) shape design, autonomous navigation in non-GPS environments, and anti-jamming data links.
AD Systems plans to further upgrade its Yangsan unmanned system framework through this large-scale military supply contract while expanding strategic cooperation with domestic and international defense companies to accelerate the development of next-generation unmanned systems and penetrate the defense market.
Kim Jeong-ho, CEO of AD Systems, stated, "We will focus on reliably supplying aircraft that meet the reliability and safety requirements demanded at military training sites." He added, "Building on this military supply contract and our Yangsan experience, we will expand our business into the field of tactical unmanned systems for reconnaissance and strike missions."
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