Military drone contract faces axe

By Lo Tien-pin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer A NT$987.81 million (US$30.7 million) contract for fixed drone countermeasure systems failed to meet standards and the Ministry of National Defense is seeking arbitration to annul the contract, a military source said yesterday.Tron Future was awarded a contract to develop 26 fixed-location, ground-based anti-drone systems that could accurately detect low-flying targets as small as 10cm2 at a range of at least 6km, and be able to disrupt its signal and bring it down at a range of 4km, said the source, who commented on condition of anonymity.However, Tron Future’s products failed to meet the standards the military set for a prototype to be approved, as well as two separate initial assessments, the source said. A soldier holds