SCR celebrates 30 years of leadership in target drones and their recent integration into the Sener Group

SCR (Sistemas de Control Remoto), a company acquired by the Sener Industrial Group in April, celebrated its 30th anniversary today at an event at the Air and Space Museum in Madrid that was attended by various officials in the field of defence and security, including Air Force General Francisco Braco Carbó, Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Space Force; Admiral Aniceto Rosique Nieto, Director of Armament and Material; Lieutenant General Julio Ayuso Miguel, Director of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology; Lieutenant General Fernando Miguel García y García de las Hijas, General Chief of the Logistics Command of the Army; Admiral Gonzalo Sanz Alisedo; Second Chief of Staff of the Navy; Major General Jose Luis Figuero Aguilar, Head of the Historical and Cultural Service of the Air Force and Space Force, as well as representatives of the Armies, Navy and DGAM. The event was supported by Colonel Félix Manjón Martín, director of the Air and Space Museum. Representing Sener were Andrés Sendagorta, its chairman; Jose Antonio Ceballos, the CEO of SCR; José Julián Echevarría, the Managing Director of Aerospace and Defence at Sener; Rafel Orbe, Managing Director of Defence at Sener; as well as the staff of SCR and part of Sener’s Aerospace and Defence team.

Founded in 1994, SCR is a Spanish company that specialises in the design, production and operation of high-performance unmanned aerial, land and naval systems, providing comprehensive solutions in both products and services. It is a pioneering company in Spain that was able to identify the potential of this field and anticipate the current boom in demand for this type of system in our country. Today, SCR is a market leader, having produced more than 1,000 platforms and rendered more than 3,500 field services. It is currently present in 17 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

SCR products have evolved significantly over the last 30 years, from the ALBA model (its first aerial target, designed in collaboration with the Spanish Institute for Aerospace Technology in 1994) to the SCRAB III, its most advanced product: it is an aerial target with high subsonic performance, capable of reaching speeds of up to 390 knots, designed and developed to respond to the most demanding needs, taking into account military training operations for long-range air defence systems, like PATRIOT, AMRAAM and NASAM. On the occasion of this anniversary, SCR donated to the Air and Space Museum a unit of the SCRAB I, the predecessor of the SCRAB III, which will become part of the Museum’s collection.

During his speech at the event, Jose Antonio Ceballos, the CEO of SCR, highlighted that “we are glad to have consolidated SCR as a benchmark in the industry. More than a celebration of our journey, this milestone is one more step in our history: we look to the future and, as always, we will continue innovating to push the technological limits of a sector that is critical to Spain’s and Europe’s future technological sovereignty”.

In addition, Jose Julián Echevarría, Managing Director of Aerospace and Defence at Sener, stated that “we are proud to celebrate this anniversary, which offers the opportunity to recognise decades of success at SCR, the work and commitment of its people and the vision of its founding team. We celebrate its integration into Sener, which undoubtedly reinforces our industrial capabilities in the development and production of remote operators, an area in which we are an internationally renowned player”.