Paramount's Mtwari aircraft
Paramount Aerospace Industries has announced that it has made additional customer deliveries of its Mwari advanced reconnaissance, surveillance and precision strike aircraft, and that it had integrated weapon management systems and command and control base for the aircraft.
Deliveries are under way to the Mozambican Air Forces, where the Mwari is already actively operational and has accrued more than 70 hours of flight-time in addressing challenging reconnaissance and surveillance assignments.
Paramount Aerospace also announced that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has ordered several Mwari platforms.
“The specifications of the Mwari aircraft’s manufacture and its versatility in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as the armed overwatch arena, make it suited for diverse environments, with the ability to address numerous types of missions, such as counter-insurgency, border patrol, precision strike, reconnaissance and surveillance,” the company said.
“We’ve designed the Mwari as a tool that is not only robust but incredibly adaptable, fitting the needs of modern militaries in Africa and around the world,” said Paramount Global CEO Steve Griessel.
“Our Mwari aircraft’s portability and indigenous production further allows for a strategic alignment with nations, giving them not just a product but a sustainable security solution.”
In terms of the Mwari’s integration of advanced weapons systems, weapons testing and certification are expected to commence towards the end of the year or early in the first quarter of next year. This will be undertaken by Paramount Aerospace Industries, thereby ensuring vertical integration and manufacture of the latest rendition of the company’s intellectual property.
The company added that it would disclose specifics of newly adopted mission and weapons systems at a later date.
Meanwhile, Paramount’s integration of modern command, control and communications base systems architecture enables the Mwari aircraft to serve as a critical link between aircraft, ground forces and forward-operating bases.
“Advanced technologies are leveraged to transmit intelligence and real-time analysis, ensuring that the Mwari can play a key role in coordinating responses, and thereby redefining the nature of precision strikes,” the company averred.
The Mwari was designed for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and close air support assignments with an interchangeable and mission-configurable payload system. The Mwari is capable of operating in remote and austere environments while requiring a minimal logistical footprint.
“The aircraft embodies the principles of find, fix, finish, exploit, analyse and disseminate capability, and is tailor-made for modern, asymmetrical threats around the world.
“Made for portable production, the Mwari creates a sustainable security solution for any nation, which will no longer be reliant on foreign powers. We are pleased to showcase the Mwari’s critical role in an interconnected battlefield of providing forces on the ground and in the air with a force multiplier competitive advantage,” Griessel concluded.