LONDON — Poland has selected an Israeli tactical unmanned aerial vehicle for operations in Afghanistan.   

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In a Feb. 1 news conference, Klich did not identify the Israeli UAV. He said the award to Aeronautics was worth $32 million.

Israel has supplied UAV systems to a range of Western militaries in the NATO stabilization campaign in Afghanistan. They included such platforms as the Heron and Searcher-3 UAVs for such countries as Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands and Spain.

This marked at least the second Aeronautics project in Afghanistan. In March 2009, Aeronautics signed a $50 million contract to provide Aerostar UAVs to the Royal Netherlands Army. Industry sources said Aerostar was believed to have been selected by Poland as well.

Aerostar, employed by the Israeli military and U.S. Navy, was reported to have an endurance of 12 hours. The platform was said to have a range of 300 kilometers.

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