Man-portable lightweight UAV
IR, colour CCD camera with real-time video downlink
Hand or rail launch
Belly skid landing
Two blade pusher prop
3.40
0.30
2.5
2.0
6.5 / 9(rail launch)
65
27
16
Biodrone
Underway
Man-portable lightweight UAV
IR, colour CCD camera with real-time video downlink
Hand or rail launch
Skid landing
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Pusher propeller with two folding blades
3.40
1.80 / 1.00(fuselage)
0.30
7
3
10
70
32
19
985
10.8
1.2 (Ni/Cd)
1.5 (NiMH)
Multipurpose UAV
IR, colour CCD camera with real-time video downlink
Conventional wheeled take-off or catapult launch.
Conventional wheeled landing, skid landing or parachute recovery.
Two blade composites pusher prop.
2.60
0.67
30
18 liters
20
75
173
43
1989-1992, first flight in mid-1991
Deployed. An artillery platoon of 8th Artillery Regiment in 1989.
Despatched in Feb 1991to Saudi Arabia as a part of
Armee de Terre's Daguet Division and used successfully in Gulf War.
Recoverable battlefield reconnaissance and surveillance UAV
Optical sensors and cameras(Video, film, infra-red or linescan), jammer, EW(ECM or ECCM), RF relay.
cable launch
parachute, belly landing
3.397 m
2.14 ㎡
81
20
25
110
119
48-65
1,092
Battlefield RSTA UAV
Day/night, large FoV, high-resolution system, panoramic camera, or ECM, ESM or sigint systems.
Wheeled take-off or catapult launch
Wheeled landing or parachute recovery
Two-blaed pusher propeller.
3.40
1.35
75
30
144
97
70
59
886
First flight was in late May 1996.
Multimission optioally piloted helicopter
Conventional helicopter take-off
Conventional helicopter landing
Transmission driven thrugh centrifugal clutch and two V-belts.
Dia: main rotor 6.70
tail rotor 0.98
2.36
230
64 liters
120
450
VNE 80
70
1,299
Deployed: France Army(AT2-MLCS); United Nations;
Indonesia(AT2-MLCS); Austria border police;
A Persian Gulf country(in early 2000); other civil customers.
Civil and military reconnaissance and surveillance UAV
CCD and IR camera, FLIR, thermal analysers, Linescan 4000, VHF or radar jammers, NBC detectors, meteorological sendes.
Ground-, trailer- or ship based bungee catapult, or pneumatic or hydraulic launcher.
parachute or belly landing
22 hp Limbach L 275 E flat-twin piston engine
two-blade pusher propeller
3.60
2.75
0.70
AT1: 60
AT2: 65
AT1: 15
AT2: 30
AT1: 85
AT2: 120
108
AT1: 70
AT2: 78
49
Electronic warfare UAV
Tales EW payloads including Phalanger (E to J band radar emission interception, localisation and identification); a high-power, multithreat SHF band radar jammer; a Pari E to j band passive RF seeker for anti-radar attack; an interceptor for all types of radio communications; and a Barage VHF/UHF radio jammer.
Automatic day or night launch by trailer-mounted pneumatic catapult; booster rocket
Automatic parachute
Two-blade pusher propeller
3.60
0.70
65
30
120
107
78
49
Small reconnaissance or attack UAV
Automatic from ramp or by solid propellant booster rocket.
K100/A: non-recoverable, K100/R: recovered by parachute or flat area belly landing.
Two-blade pusher propeller.
2.60
126
39
Stealth UCAV design, low-obserable aerial target
Conventional runway take-off
conventional runway landing. Parachute for emergency recovery.
2.40
35
60
M 0.5
First flight on 18 July, 2000
Low-cost, simplifide version for aerial target use / Close-range reconnaissance, surveillance fibre optic-guided(FOG) UAV.
Colour CCD camera with ×12 zoom
Conventional wheeled take-off (40m runway required)
Wheeled landing; parachute for safety or emergency use.
GCS
Twin 6 hp ZG Titan 62 cc piston engines
3.0 / 3.50
8
15 / 30
92 / 70
27 / 17
High-altitude, long-endurance UAV.
Conventional runway take-off
runway landing
500
5,300
M 0.65
Solar powered UAV.
Multimission optionally piloted helicopter
IFF transponder; RR401 peacetime radar transponder; thermal analysers; high-resolution field scanners; NBC and atmospheric sensors; camera systems; video and numeric datalinks.
Conventional helicopter take-off.
Conventional helicopter landing.
GCS, four-wheel-drive truck, towing a trailer, one AV.
12-channel DGPS.
Dia: 6.70/
0.98
disc: 35.21
/7.86
0.50
230
120
450
VNE 80
70
1.299
VTOL UAV
Conventional helicopter take-off
Conventional helicopter landing
rotor dia: 1.50/ 2.10/ 4.40
6/ 15/ 150
<25/ 70/ 580
Eurodrone
(Franch (Matra BAe Dynamics)
& German (MBB) international)
First two complete operational units (each with five airvehicles)
were delivered for operational evalution by the French and German
armed forces in April 1998; nearly 200 flights made by mid-1999.
Reconnaissance, target location/ designation and damage assessment UAV
Zeiss Ophelios 12 micron stabilised day/night (FLIR) sensor.
Jettisonable booster rocket.
Parechute and airbag recovery system. 200 × 200 m needed.
Two-blade pusher prop.
3.42
0.96
35
161
135
81
65
Battlefield EW (tactical radio/radar jamming) UAV
Tales Bacarat system.
From cradle-type ramp by two jettisonable solid-propellant boost rockets.
By engine shutdown and deployment of parachute; landing impact absorbed by inflatable underfuselage pad.
Two-blade pusher propeller.
3.00
150
97
Matra BAe Dynamics/
EADS Aerospatiale Matra
Eagle
Complete
Underway
Medium-altitude, long-endurance strategic UAV.
EO and IR camera; tactical communications relay; for search and rescue operation, a Sarsat distress beacon location system; SAR, laser target designation.
Conventional runway take-off.
Conventional runway landing.
One Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprop engine.
Teo-blade pusher prop.
20
11
2.70
300
2,500
140-220
45,000
>20
prototype test flown in 1998 with Rotax 914 piston engine.
Fregate
Underway
High-altitude, long-endurance strategic UAV.
Sigint
Conventional runway take-off.
Conventional runway landing.
Two business jet engines
27
12
2,000
7,000- 10,000
324
60,000
18
Surveillance and target acquisition UAV.
LOS payload with TV & FLIR, or Cyclope 2000 IRLS with both daylight and IR. Each payload provides high-resolution, full real-time image data transmission, and target location with a level of accuracy first-round strike.
Pneumatic catapult from trailer-mounted ramp.
Autonomous parachute recovery with discard device for safe landing in windy conditions.
Two-blade wooden pusher prop.
3.28
0.71
24
35
145
129
86
70
Initial flight tests conducted 26/27 May 1994.
first system deployed to Bosnia November/December 1995.
From 1 July 1999 were reallocated, together with CL-289 Pivers,
to 61st Atrillery Regiment.
Aurveillance and target acquisition UAV
SAGEM IRIS dual EO/IR sensor payload.
Automatic, by pneumatic catapult.
Parachute and triple airbag recovery system.
J-band (15Ghz) datalink
Four-blade pusher prop.
4.20
1.10
212
45
330
127
<90
Sperwer (version for Royal Netherlands Army) first flight in second half of 1996. Ordered also by Denmark in early 1999. Ugglan is a version for Swedish Army.
TMD3
Complete
Underway
available
Lightweight close-range surveillance UAV
IR cameras; two-axis(roll & pitch) LLTV camera; or acoustic sensors.
Hand-launch
Belly landing
E/F-band
Battery-powered brushless electric motor.
Two-blade pusher prop.
3.40
2.10
0.30
3.0
9.0
65
16
5.4
>1.0
Survey-Copter
France
Aerial observation RPH.
Can include CCD, zoom, IR or thermal imaging cameras
Conventional helicopter take-off.
Conventional helicopter landing.
1.2 - 2.5 GHz HF
Dia: 1.82
0.50
6.4/ 8
4/ 10
43