Exclusive: Uniquely Configured RQ-170 Stealth Spy Drone Appears At Vandenberg AFB - The Drive

 

 

The U.S. Air Force’s Stealth Drone Could Have a New Mission - War is Boring

Nuovo gingillo cinese. 

 

Design Hasegawa

 

 

A.P.50 Hummel- Maschinen Krieger  

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China develops advanced ultra-low altitude anti-ship unmanned system - Defence Blog

Ultra low  antiship unmanned sysyem ?

Storia vecchia già fatto da un pezzo . 

 

 

La guerra degli sciami - CeSI

Ripresi i voli per il Piaggio HammerHead

 

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Piaggio resumes flight testing of P.1HH HammerHead UAV

Piaggio Aerospace yesterday resumed flight testing of its P.1HH HammerHead, more than 13 months after the first prototype of the unmanned air vehicle was destroyed in a crash off Sicily.

 

The Italian company says it flew the second prototype at Birgi military airport in Trapani, Sicily on 5 July, but does not provide further details of the sortie, or the planned flight test schedule.

 

Piaggio unveiled the medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV at the Paris air show in 2013 and has orders for eight examples from the United Arab Emirates. UAE state investment group Mubadala owns Piaggio.

 

Although Italy has not placed an order – only expressing "great interest" in the aircraft – it has been supporting the flight test effort by providing military facilities.

 

The original P.1HH – which is based on Piaggio's almost 30-year-old Avanti business turboprop platform and has a Leonardo-developed mission system – crashed 100h into its flight test programme on 31 May 2016.

 

Although Piaggio has been reluctant to publicly commit to a delivery date to the UAE, it now says that "completion of the system and first deliveries are planned in the course of 2018".

 

Villanova D’Albenga-based Piaggio has been branching away from its traditional reliance on business aviation and into what it sees as a more lucrative special mission market. It is developing a manned reconnaissance version of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6-powered Avanti, called the Multirole Patrol Aircraft in partnership with Abu Dhabi Autonomous System Investments. Enhancements include a higher-rated PT6 engine and a Saab-developed mission control system, and two prototypes are planned.

 

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/piaggio-resumes-flight-testing-of-p1hh-hammerhead-u-439082/

Francia e germania si sono ulteriormente accordate in quest'ultimo incontro tra macron e merkel per accelerare i tempi della realizzazione di UAV europeo, dal 2019 dovrebbe iniziare ad arrivare qualcosa ben prima del 2025 inizialmente previsto

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Details of Chinese sea-skimming lethal drone prototype emerge | Jane's

 

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Jane’s sources have shed new light on a hitherto unseen anti-ship weapon/unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-like system – centred around a wing-in-ground-effect optimised airframe – that was initially circulated on Chinese internet discussion forums around May 2017 in a Mandarin language brochure with a redacted product designation.

Developed by defence prime China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation's (CASC's) China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA) subsidiary, the system has been given the product designation of CH-T1, although it is understood that the company prefers to identify it as the Ground Effect UAV (GEUAV) demonstrator.

The forward segment of the 5.8 m long GEUAV demonstrator is shaped like a conventional missile, with a cylindrical fuselage capped by an ogival nosecone where the radar seeker is located. Towards the rear is an unconventionally designed main body featuring two thick, long chord but short-span stubby wing structures running along the sides of its belly that combine to form a continuous wing-like undersurface. Two small outer wings can be found at the front of the main stub wings, along with upwards cranked V-tailfins at the rear that have an overall span of 3.8 m.

The air vehicle has a specified maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of 3,000 kg – although the prototype weighed significantly less during trials as it only carried partial payloads and fuel loads – and achieves take-off via rocket assisted catapult launch. It can be powered by either a turbojet or turbofan engine, which enables it to travel at a maximum speed of Mach 0.65 (802 km/h) while cruising at terrain hugging altitudes of 1–6 m. The engine draws its air from an intake located on top of its main body to avoid ingesting sea spray during low level flight overwater.

 

New details of the research project "Hunter-B" and the design of the unmanned aerial vehicle S-70 | Livejournal

 

Su-70 Okhotnik-B