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title: "Kawasaki Heavy to form technical tie-up with Airbus for defense drones, Nikkei reports"
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# Kawasaki Heavy to form technical tie-up with Airbus for defense drones, Nikkei reports

TOKYO, June 26 : Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries will form a technical tie-up with Airbus Defence and Space for defence drones, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday. The deal marks the first time a Japanese heavy industry firm has partnered with a foreign major on defense drones, the paper said. Kawasaki is expected to provide anti-submarine warfare systems for the Eurodrone project, with plans to jointly propose the product to Japan's defense ministry, the Nikkei said. Eurodrone is a four-nation development programme of Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

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