What is Jordan's experience in building UAVs
Are there private players?
What is Jordan's experience in building UAVs
Are there private players?
Silent Eye
The Silent Eye back-packable UAV system is part of the KADDB-JAI UAV family. The system is ideally suited for aerial surveillance, scouting missions, area and perimeter aerial control, and highway monitoring and traffic control. It is also suited for search and rescue mission support, patrol and convoy missions, locate and verify area parameter missions, aerial survey, etc.
Jordan Arrow
Use(s): aerial target intended for defence weapon training/T&E for close-in/ short-range weapons Manufacturer: Jordan Advanced Remote Systems Powerplant: 38hp rotary Dimensions: length: 3m, height: 0.6m, wingspan: 2.2m Weight: MTOW: 60kg, max payload: 15kg Performance: speed: 450km/h (rotary), endurance: 2hr, ceiling: 505,000m Payload: visual aug for optical tracking, IR & active/passive augmentation, IR & active/passive radar countermeasures, scoring equip & other: IFF Guidance/Tracking: onboard digital auto control with GPS-based nav, preprogrammable autonomous mode, changeable in-flight Launch: pneumatic catapult Recovery: parachute (flotation equipment & emergency beacon for above-water operations) Structure Material: glass fibre&alu System Components: 4-8 UAVs, GCS, catapult launcher & ground support equip. Status: in production
SEA BIRD T-REX
Among the most eye-catching exhibits at SOFEX is the strangely shaped Seabird RL 100 T-Rex UAV project, which was initiated about six months ago. It grew out of the SwissCopter Dragonfly tip-jet light manned helicopter, but has been evolved into a military UAV concept for a ‘killer’ vehicle to work with ‘hunter’ UAVs.
T-Rex, and its Dragonfly predecessor, feature a tip-jet propulsion system to drive the two-blade rotor. There is no engine as such, no transmission, and consequently very little noise, but endurance is restricted to about 90 minutes. The system currently uses hydrogen peroxide fuel, but other fuels could be used. Rotor torque issues are handled in the flight control system.
T-Rex is planned to have an 80kg payload, primarily comprising weapons. The operational concept is for surveillance platforms such as other UAVs to find targets for the
T-Rex, which is then dispatched to attack them. It has a cursor-on-target guidance system that flies the T-Rex to its target location, and then holds the weapons-aiming cursor on the target, ready to fire.
NT 150 is the designation of the SwissCopter-designed 4.5m span medium UAV, which has been flown and tested in Jordan. The 20hp engine gives a maximum speed of 200 km/h, and the NT 150 can carry a 40kg useful payload. Endurance in that configuration is about six hours, but if some payload is traded for fuel, the NT 150 has an endurance of 10-12 hours. Effective range of the line-of-sight
datalink is more than 100km.