An Ultimate Air/CADG (Singapore) Helix ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) aircraft has spent several days in Mozambique, where it has allegedly been used to monitor Islamist insurgents.
A photo of the aircraft (ZS-TAX) at Pemba Airport placed the aircraft there by 24 April. It was parked next to what appears to be a Cessna Grand Caravan belonging to Ultimate Air. Flight tracking websites showed that the Helix came back to South Africa on 25 April, and the aircraft was seen at OR Tambo International Airport outside Johannesburg on 26 April, still fitted with its surveillance gimbal.
The aircraft is believed to have been in Mozambique to monitor Islamist insurgents in Cabo Delgado province.
Mozambique; Helix UAV employed for anti-insurgents ops?