Airborne towed radar decoy. Relatively high power veision.

 EW suite.  Fully programable ECM, effective against monopulse, semi-active radars and home-on jamming systems; operates in H to J (6-20 GHz) frequency bands.

 Winched out on 200m cable  behind parent aircraft.

By cable reel-in on larger aircraft; with smaller aircraft, is jettisoned before landing and can be recovered by optional parachute system.

 100

 M 1.3

In Royal Air Force

Able to take advantage of other EW equipment, such as an RWR or an ECM generator, etc.

 M 1.3

In Royal Air Force

 100

Battlefield surveillance and target acquisition
UAV.

 IR payload with 360° scan azimuth.

Hycraulic/ pneumatic catapult installed on a six-wheel, 14 tone truck.

Parachute and airbag.

 Three GCS crews; nine other personnel

Air vehicles; one GCS; one ground data terminal; one launch vehicle; one launch support vehicle; one recovery vehicle; and one forward amintenance facility

Two-blade fixed-pitch wooden prop.

 5.50

3.80

 20

 85

198 air vehicles were ordered and due delivery time by 2001.

In service from 1998. British Army (Nos 32 and 39 Regiments, Royal Artillery)

Close-range RSTA UAV

CCD TV cameras.

Bungee catapult launch

Automatic, by parachute and airbag or by belly skid landing.

UHF (400 MHz) uplink and D-band (1.2 GHz) downlink.

Two-blade wooden pusher prop

2.40

>68

58

984

First flight made on 11 March 1999.

UK Ministry of Defence

Surveillance UAV

TV camera, night vision systems or communications relay packages.

Wheeled take-off

Wheeled landing

Two two-blade prop

1.69

5.4

87

31

First test flight in 1999

Man-portable surveillance UAV

Colour TV camera; 35 mm film camera with normal or IR film

Hand-launch

Parachute for emergency recovery

UHF real-time imagery downlink

Two-blade prop

1.42

1.8

83

26

2.500

First test flight in 1999

Underway

Single piston engine

Two-blade prop.

1.52

2.3

83

26

14,000

2.500

1.7

>1.0

Close-/ short-range intelligence surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) UAV.

Close-range day and night surveillance UAV

CCD video camera

 By bungee- powered catapult

Skid landing or parachute recovery

4 cerws

A single support vehicle/trailer combination, comprising a GCS, launcher and air vehicles.

Two-blade pusher prop

3.66

3.175

9.3 (13.3 liters)

 97

60

55

600

 Mulitirole UAV

Two-blade fixed-pitch wooden pusher prop

130 

 60

 1,575

With SAGEM france

Multirole UAV

 IAI Tamam POP TV/FLIR sensor

By free-standing or trailer- mounted bungee catapult; rocket- assisted take-off opteinal.

 By onboard parachute system, controled manually or automatically.

 Four personnel

Six air vehicles (tipically), one mobile GCS, one mobile launcher, support and spares equipment.

 Two-blade fixed-pitch wooden pusher prop

3.28

3.72

2.74

0.97

 111.6

27.2 (40 liters)

In service more than 60 with both surveillance and EW payloads.

Available

Battlefield close-range reconnaissance and surveillance UAV

CCD video camera or IR. ECM and decoy systems optional.

By lightweight catapult.

Parachute recovery.

Typically, six air vehicles with electro- optical payloads, launcher, recovery and refurbishing equipment, and a command and control/ processing (C²P) unit. A single four-wheel drive vehicle provides complete system transport, air vehicle launch, flight control, real-time image interpretation and display.

Two-blade pusher prop.

 2.50

 1.52

23

9.5 liters

97

49

Close-range airborne surveillance system

Colour CCD TV camera or thermal imager

 From mobile trolley, JATO or lightweight catapult

Fuselage skid landing, or by on-command / fail-safe parachute.

Two-blade pusher prop.

2.85

2.47

76

40

 Ultra- lightweight surveillance UAV

CCD TV camera

 Hand- launched

 Fueslage skid landing or on-command/ fail-safe parachute

D-band (1.2 GHz) video

Two-blade prop

2.80

 1.70

35

16

Short-range UAV

Automatic, using existing systems, for which interfaces can be provided

Parachute recovery

apprx 78