Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09BANGKOK1821
2009-07-29 09:58:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Bangkok
Cable title:
BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON
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UNCLAS BANGKOK 001821
SIPDIS
FOR PM/DTCC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETTC KOMC TH
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON
LICENSE 050108124
REF: STATE 29852
UNCLAS BANGKOK 001821
SIPDIS
FOR PM/DTCC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETTC KOMC TH
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON
LICENSE 050108124
REF: STATE 29852
1. (U) POL FSN April 24 visited the Signal Department of the
Royal Thai Army (RTA) and met with the Chief of the Signal
Department's Procurement Division and the Chief of the Office
of the Director-General of the Department. The colonels
verbally confirmed the purchase of five inertial measurement
units (IMU) for use in the avionics system in the Searcher 2
UAV. The RTA was procuring the items from Israeli Aerospace
Industries (IAI).
2. (U) Both of the officers were quite surprised to learn
that the IMUs were products of, and purchased in, the U.S.
The RTA officers claimed that IAI had informed the RTA that
all equipment in the contract had been made in Israel.
3. (U) The RTA officers stated that the IMUs had not yet been
delivered to the Signal Department, but that IAI had told the
RTA that they would arrive in May. Both officers said that
the Signal Department had been working with IAI since
approximately 1999.
4. (U) POL FSN July 23 visited the RTA Aviation Center in
Lopburi, Thailand. The reftel five sets of IMUs had been
ordered by the RTA's Signal Department in Bangkok, and then
forwarded to the Aviation Center for assembly in Searcher 2
UAVs. A group of IAI engineers and technicians as well as
representatives from the Army Aviation Center showed four
UAVs and POL FSN was able to identify four IMUs as listed
reftel. The fifth IMU was displayed in a box as it would be
used as a spare part. The IAI representatives said that the
IMUs had departed Israel in mid-May, arrived Bangkok in
mid-June, and had been delivered to RTA Aviation Center in
late June.
JOHN
SIPDIS
FOR PM/DTCC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETTC KOMC TH
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON
LICENSE 050108124
REF: STATE 29852
1. (U) POL FSN April 24 visited the Signal Department of the
Royal Thai Army (RTA) and met with the Chief of the Signal
Department's Procurement Division and the Chief of the Office
of the Director-General of the Department. The colonels
verbally confirmed the purchase of five inertial measurement
units (IMU) for use in the avionics system in the Searcher 2
UAV. The RTA was procuring the items from Israeli Aerospace
Industries (IAI).
2. (U) Both of the officers were quite surprised to learn
that the IMUs were products of, and purchased in, the U.S.
The RTA officers claimed that IAI had informed the RTA that
all equipment in the contract had been made in Israel.
3. (U) The RTA officers stated that the IMUs had not yet been
delivered to the Signal Department, but that IAI had told the
RTA that they would arrive in May. Both officers said that
the Signal Department had been working with IAI since
approximately 1999.
4. (U) POL FSN July 23 visited the RTA Aviation Center in
Lopburi, Thailand. The reftel five sets of IMUs had been
ordered by the RTA's Signal Department in Bangkok, and then
forwarded to the Aviation Center for assembly in Searcher 2
UAVs. A group of IAI engineers and technicians as well as
representatives from the Army Aviation Center showed four
UAVs and POL FSN was able to identify four IMUs as listed
reftel. The fifth IMU was displayed in a box as it would be
used as a spare part. The IAI representatives said that the
IMUs had departed Israel in mid-May, arrived Bangkok in
mid-June, and had been delivered to RTA Aviation Center in
late June.
JOHN