Target drone





Ryan BQM-34 Firebee jet-propelled drone, used as a target drone


A target drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle, generally remote controlled, usually used in the training of anti-aircraft crews.[1]


One of the earliest drones was the British DH.82 Queen Bee, a variant of the Tiger Moth trainer aircraft operational from 1935. Its name led to the present term "drone".[citation needed]


In their simplest form, target drones often resemble radio-controlled model aircraft. More modern drones may use countermeasures, radar, and similar systems to mimic manned aircraft.[2]


More advanced drones are made from large, older missiles which have had their warheads removed.[citation needed]


In the United Kingdom, obsolete Royal Air Force and Royal Navy jet and propeller-powered aircraft (such as the Fairey Firefly, Gloster Meteor and de Havilland Sea Vixen used at RAE Llanbedr between the 1950s and 1990s) have also been modified into remote controlled drones, but such modifications are costly. With a much larger budget, the U.S. military has been more likely to convert retired aircraft or older versions of still serving aircraft (e.g., QF-4 Phantom II and QF-16 Fighting Falcon) into remotely piloted targets for US Air Force, US Navy and US Marine Corps use as Full Scale Aerial Targets.[3][4]




Winston Churchill and the Secretary of State for War waiting to see the launch of a de Havilland Queen Bee radio-controlled target drone, 6 June 1941.



List of target drones






QF-4E from the 82d Aerial Targets Squadron detachment at Holloman AFB, flying manned at a McGuire AFB air show in May 2007 with an A-10A in the background


  • Airspeed Queen Wasp

  • Curtiss Queen Seamew

  • de Havilland Queen Bee

  • Denel Dynamics Skua

  • DRDO Lakshya


  • Meggitt Banshee[5]

  • Fairey Queen

  • GAF Jindivik

  • GAF Turana

  • Miles Queen Martinet

  • TAI Şimşek

  • Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher

  • de Havilland Vampire

  • QB-17 Flying Fortress

  • QT-33 Shooting Star

  • QB-47 Stratojet

  • BQM-34 Firebee

  • BQM-74 Chukar

  • QF-86 Sabre

  • QF-100 Super Sabre

  • QF-102 and PQM-102 Delta Dart

  • QF-106 Delta Dart

  • QF-4 Phantom II

  • QF-16 Fighting Falcon

  • Karrar (UCAV)

  • QF-9 Cougar


See also





  • Target tug, the towed variant


  • Powered seaborne target, the naval counterpart


References




  1. ^ "Avonds Scale Jets - Target Drones". Avonds.com. Retrieved 2011-10-22..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ^ "Target Drones". Vector Site. Retrieved 2011-10-22.


  3. ^ [1][dead link]


  4. ^ "F-16 Versions - QF-16". www.f-16.net.


  5. ^ "meggittdefenceuk.com". www.meggittdefenceuk.com.









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