Predator Uavs

It is not one type but a family of machines of General Atomics, which over the past two decades years, underwent rapid development. The reconnaissance platform RQ-1 Predator piston engine in the mid nineties, followed by the Predator B, powered by an engine turboprop carrying military designation MQ-9A Reaper from which to detonate protizemní missiles AGM-114 Hellfire successfully used for attacks on Islamic fundamentalists. Newly developed the Predator C is now equipped with jet engines, Pratt & Whittney PW 545 is used in the Cessna Citation, the machine name with the martial Avenger can klometrů rate of 700 per hour.

Predator UAV

Development began in the eighties. The requirements were specified in detail in the early 90 years. Asking the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft operating on the high endurance of the medium height, with that in the future should serve as a carrier missile.

The first prototype, based on the experimental machine Gnat 750 flew in 1994. Serial production of machines powered by supercharged Rotax started in 1997, since 1995, however, the prototypes were used in Bosnia. Predator and were also used in IraqIn Kosovo and Afghanistan.

The first attack

In 2001, Predator and as the first history of UAV launched cruise missile. A year later, the Hellfire missile fired from Predator and destroyed a car carrying alleged terrorists in Yemen.

Predator control airplane cabin

The Predator A, which přeznačilo U.S. Air Force RQ-1 of the MQ-1, to emphasize that it is not just a reconnaissance vehicle, but it is a multipurpose, followed by the Predator B, carrying military designation MQ-9A Reaper with larger dimensions powered turboprop engine Honeywell, which got him more than twice the speed exceeding 400 km / h.

Reaper has been developed since 1998 and used since 2001. Is mainly deployed on the Afghanistan-Pakistan game, where the end of summer 2008, used to attack the houses used by Muslim radicals. A bullet fired from a Predator killed a Pakistani Taliban chief Mehsud Bajtulláha.

Remote piloting Predator aircraft

Predatory Both versions are equipped with synthetic aperture radars, equipment for flight in poor visibility, and FLIR infrared opto-electronic system for tracking. for targeting weapons system used by Raytheon ICC. Allows you to use different types of weapons, including bombs and laser guided missiles.

The ground control station is on a trailer truck, which sits in the pilot joystick operator AT & exploration equipment and armament.

Predatory letestvo uses primarily U.S. Air Force, but also a secret service CIA, The British RAF, it is ordered and Italy.

Remote piloting an airplane Predator