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PAKISTAN NAVY Invites Bids for Fixed Wing and VTOL UAV

The mosquito UAV from Turkish TAI
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She has a take off weight of 300kg
Payload of 120kg
Endurance 1,5 hours
range 150km
can be armed with a launchtube for 2 laserguided CIRIT missiles

Unless it has been tested in severe Maritime environment and hot& high winds, it seems that this UAV in its shown configuration will not survive flight in the Arabian Sea from a ship deck!! Plus it has very little endurance compared to the 6 hours required by the PN
 
Unless it has been tested in severe Maritime environment and hot& high winds, it seems that this UAV in its shown configuration will not survive flight in the Arabian Sea from a ship deck!! Plus it has very little endurance compared to the 6 hours required by the PN

Well I am not an expert but seen the total weight the mosquito is not doing under to the other VTOL's shown in this topic. It is still in prototype phase so I do not expect there is already a navalized version available. The endurance can be enhanced I guess by offsetting payload to extra fuel.

My personal opinion is that VTOL's should be armed. Naval VTOL's should be able to carry Hellfire (& alike (UMTAS)) to engage FAC.
 
Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 Aircraft News from Flightglobal

US Army outlines VTOL UAV needs

In the same January speech in which US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates listed Pentagon programmes to be cut in an attempt to save hundreds of billions of dollars, several ambitious new efforts were also mentioned, including the US Army's vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle programme.

Although endorsed by Gates, the army's VTOL UAV requirements are still a glimmer in the Pentagon's eye.

"There isn't a requirements document at this time," says Col Bill Morris, director of army aviation in the office of the deputy chief of staff. "There are a lot of concepts."

Tasked with writing the requirement is Col Robert Sova, training and doctrine capability manager for unmanned aircraft systems. Sova expects to have a capability development document - which lays out the key performance parameters of a system and ultimately guides its development - completed in the first half of 2011.

The army has attempted to acquire a VTOL UAV before. Known at the time as the Class IV UAS, it was part of the ultimately doomed Future Combat Systems effort, cancelled in 2009. But a future army VTOL UAV would be a "different, broader, big-army type of requirement", says Col Randolph Rotte, chief of the aviation division, US Army G-8 Force Development, not necessarily following the "very specific mission set" envisaged for FCS.

Several army officials at the AUSA Aviation 2011 conference cited a desire to fulfil certain intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) requirements with a VTOL UAV as a major driver for the new programme.

Some of the thirst for long-endurance, vertical take-off ISR is about to be quenched. The army is outfitting a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-owned Boeing A160 Hummingbird with an autonomous real-time ground ubiquitous surveillance-imaging system payload. It will also carry wide-area surveillance and signal intelligence packages, says Tim Owings, deputy programme manager UAS for the Program Executive Office Aviation.

"We intend to deploy the single A160 to Afghanistan late this year, with two additional vehicles now under final integration deployed sometime early fiscal 2012 as a complement - one rounded quick-reaction capability," he says.

But that effort is in addition to the programme Gates referenced, Owings says. The new effort is also piquing the interest of the logistics side as a cargo-moving option. The initial inception of the new programme will also be an A160, Owings says, but only to get started. "We plan to take a parallel competitive stance for the longer-term programme."

In the meantime, the army is closely watching the US Marine Corps in its own parallel competition for vertical-lift options for cargo, Owings says.

The USMC in December set up rivals Boeing and Lockheed Martin to face off for a cargo UAV contract - Lockheed with partner Kaman Aerospace and the K-Max, with Boeing to use the A160.

Each team will provide two air vehicles and three remote ground control stations for a quick reaction assessment over the summer. One team will then be selected for a six-month deployment to Afghanistan.
 
Latest information from NHQ is that the total allocated budget (not yet confirmed from Ministry of Defense) for UAV tender is only US$3 Million!!!!

In this budget window, its is doubtful that Navy would be able to get any decent foreign UAV. Might as well buy additional fixed wing UQAB UAV Systems like it was done in 2009!!

The more amazing fact is that actual allocation of funds for all the big-ticket items has not yet been made either by Ministry of Finance to Ministry of Defense and onward to DP Navy. In turn Government is asking to cut all major expenditures within the Defense HQ's!
 
I would prefer this model's:
«INDELA EYE SKY»
She has a take off weight of 140kg
Payload of 80kg
Standard fuel capacity 80l
Endurance 8 hours
range 480km
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I would prefer this model's:
«INDELA EYE SKY»
She has a take off weight of 140kg
Payload of 80kg
Standard fuel capacity 80l
Endurance 8 hours
range 480km
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Maximum takeoff weight kg 140
Weight kg 80
«INDELA» | Independent Development Laboratory

This 60kg payload is clearly observation/surveillance payload only (or light weapons at best: no lightweight ASW torps or AGM-65 Maverick or anyting heavier for sure).
 
China U8E VTOL UAV

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U8E is a light multi-mission unmanned aerial vehicles, the performance of its brief as follows:

• Maximum takeoff weight: 220 kg

• Maximum speed: 150 km

* Cruise speed: 120 km

• Maximum altitude: 3500 m

* Range: 150 km

• Maximum battery life: 4 hours

• Maximum load: 40 kg

China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation, said: "U8E with electro-optical and multi-task load, in the military and civilian fields play an important role in the fight against terrorism and intelligence investigations in the best choice."

U8E unmanned helicopter fuselage 1 m wide, length 3.738 m, 1.47 m high, wing length 3.86 meters.

China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation also demonstrated ASN-209 tactical UAV model. This is an aerial flight, in fixed-wing aircraft, multi-task, with a look straight from the data link, can be equipped with synthetic aperture radar, electro-optical payload and multi-task load.

ASN-209 brief performance as follows: range of 200 kilometers, the maximum speed of 180 km, payload 50 kg, altitude 5,000 meters. Equipped with ground moving target indication (GMTI), electronic reconnaissance, electronic weapons, ground target, and communications relay equipment.
 

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