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REGIONAL U A V D I R E C T O R Y requirements are likely to be worth up to $1.25 billion. All the production will be performed locally. Given India’s everyday tense situation on the Pakistani and Chinese boarders, along with the country’s aviation industry boom, UAV technology will undoubtedly reveal its usefulness and success in different types of tasks. Maritime operations, as well as surveillance and reconnaissance operations are boosting the demand for medium altitude, long endurance UAVs and tactical UAVs. India is currently operating the Searcher and the Heron Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAV model , and has recently acquired the unmanned combat aircraft (UCAV) Harop, due to become operational this year. All three models are manufactured by Israel’s IAI. India is, without any doubt, one of the most significant markets for the Heron. Israel has sold India scores of the UAV worth almost US $1 billion, in several deals. INDONESIA Fielded Searcher Mk II, IAI; fielding in 2012, delayed and originally ordered in 2006 from Kital Philippines Corp. SS-5, PT Wesco Aerospace; one or more systems reported to be deployed to Aceh in 2005. Aerosonde, AAI; Deployed with paramilitary and Police forces. Trials and development BBPT-04C Sriti, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology; 10km range tactical UAV using a flying wing design. ALAP, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology; 25kg, 50km range UAV. ‘TUAV’, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology; 120kg UAV with a range of 120km. Three design shape prototypes; the BPPT-01A “Wulung” with Hi rectangular-wing, Low Boom T-tail, the BPPT-01B “Gagak” with Low rectangularwing, Low Boom V-Tail and the BPPT-02A “Wulung” with a Hi rectangular-wing, Hi Boom Inverted V-Tail design. NOTES: Indonesia has recently disclosed details about the development of a new The Elbit Skylark I miniature UAV. Launched by hand, it is capable of sending real-time video to a portable ground station. Skylark is in operation with the Australian armed forces. © Elbit Systems UAV. The Ministry of Defence, together with the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) and the state-owned companies PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI) and PT LEN Industri signed, last 29 April, a cooperative development agreement, aimed at constructing the BPPT01A-200-PA7 Wulung unmanned aerial vehicle. The Indonesian UAV weighs 60 kilograms (with the capacity of carrying an additional 25) and can fly for up to four hours at a maximum altitude of 3,658 meters at 55 knots per hour. The drone, ready to be mass produced this year, is equipped with a surveillance camera providing real-time recordings to ground control station, a feature that well fulfils the country’s surveillance and security needs, given its vast territories. JAPAN Fielded Forward Flying Observation System, Fuji Heavy Industries; Development of rotary wing design began in 1991 with three systems equipping Army artillery units from 2004. Civil version is the RPH-2. RMAX, Yamaha Motor Company; Deployed with Japan’s Iraq contingent in 2005. B Type Machine II, Fuji Imvac; Deployed over Fukushima. ScanEagle, Insitu; Two systems on order. TAyoutoK(C)Ogata Mujinki (TACOM), Fuji Heavy Industries; Trans. ‘Multi-role small UAV’. Japan’s Technical Research and Development Institute have been working on the concept since 1995. Evaluation flight test in 2001. In 2011 Japan released film of two turbo jet powered drones carried by an F-15J. TACOM launched while aloft and returns to base using a retractable undercarriage. A prototype launched from a Mitsubishi/Lockheed Martin F-2 was lost at sea in 2010. 28 l ASIAN MILITARY REVIEW l
REGIONAL U A V D I R E C T O R Y J/AQM-1, Fuji Heavy Industries; Air force target drone, entered services 1987, indigenous design. BQM-34AJ, Fuji Heavy Industries; Navy target drone, licensed development of Firebee. Trials and development RQ-8A Fire Scout, Northrop Grumman; Company believes it has interest from the military. B Type Machine II, Fuji IMVAC, Used to monitor Fukushima. Ball Shaped UAV; Development or SUAV for Urban ops for Army. RQ-16B T-Hawk, Honeywell Aerospace; Used to monitor Fukushima. Global Hawk, Northrop Grumman; listed Japan as a potential customer at Paris Airshow 2011 in maritime and overland role. Thought to be as part of 2011-2015 Mid-Term Defence Programme with three of the UAVs potentially required probably working in conjunction with P-3C Orion. Japanese interests first noted in 2004. Improved satellite surveillance the main alternative. NOTES: Japan seems far behind others as regards UAVs. There are however a large number of UAV companies in Japan including Fuji Heavy Industries, Yamaha Motor, Yanmar Agricultural Equipment, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sky Remote, Hirobo, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hitachi, NEC Corporation, GH Craft, Fuji Imvac and Nippi Corporation. NORTH KOREA Fielded Pchela, Yakovlev OKB; Unconfirmed reports that North Korea acquired the Russian UAV in 1995. NOTES: North Korea seems to be developing “kamikaze” drones, possibly aimed at targeting South Korean military forces. These programmes have been underway for a while. SOUTH KOREA Fielded Harpy, IAI; 100 systems valued at $45m fielded from 1999. RQ-101 Night Intruder 300, KAI; Began development in 1991 with Ministry funding with the Army receiving five systems 2001- 2004 for Corps level operation, Navy also acquired the system. Shadow 400, AAI; One system in service with Navy for evaluation from 2006. Skylark II, Elbit Systems; Announced selection in Dec 2007, equipped with the Micro- CoMPASS E/O payload with first delivery in 2008. Trials and development KUS-11 TUAV, KAI; Division level solution, awarded development contract in Sept. 2010, delivery in 2015. KUS-9, Korean Air, KAI; Development completed in 2009, work on project now ended Devil Killer, KAI; Miniature UAV weighs 25Kg, endurance 8 hrs. KUS-15, Korean Air; V-tail MALE design, mock up shown at Seoul 2011. Night Intruder NI-11N, KAI; Development began in 2006 with focus on maritime surveillance. Korean - Combat Unmanned Vehicle, KAI; K-CUAV model at Seoul 2011. KUS-X, Korean Air; Turbo-jet Delta design wing space 4.5m length 3.5m. Urban Star, Kyung An Cable Company; VTOL UAV in development. Remoeye-002A, Ucon Systems; 1.5m wingspan, range 10km endurance 1 hr. CCD TV or IR with single axis scanning. Remoeye-006, Ucon Systems; pylon mounted high wing design, 6.8kg, 2.59m wingspan, 2 hr. endurance. Remoeye-015, Ucon Systems; Development complete in <strong>June</strong> 2005, 15kg TUAV endurance 4hrs plus range 40km, CCD TV or IR camera payload. Remo H-120, Ucon Systems; In development, 340CC engine rotary wing design endurance of two hours and range of 50km. RQ-8A Fire Scout, Northrop Grumman; Company believes it has interest. RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30, Northrop Grumman; Korea allocating $40m for partial payment in 2011 budget for four aircraft for delivery in 2015-16 but since canceled plans. Northrop Grumman had partnered with DACC Aerospace, Foosung, KJF and Korean Air. Smart UAV, KARI and Ministry of Knowledge Economy; Tilt rotor design launched in 2002 with significant government funding, unveiled in 2005 was to begin flight testing in 2011, at 500kmph aircraft described as the world's fastest UAV, altitude of 20,000ft and operational radius of 200km. FMAV, Korea Agency for Defense Development, Hanwha and USAFRL, Flapping Wing MAV, weigh 200g, endurance 25 minutes. NOTES: South Korea continues to have an existing requirement for a high altitude, long endurance UAV. Following the collapse of efforts to acquire the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk. AeroVironment Global Obsever and Boeing's Phantom Eye are being publicly cited as candidates for this requirement with Israeli competition also expected notably from the Heron TP. MALAYSIA Fielded Eagle 150B, CTRM; Conversion of CTRM’s Eagle 150 trainer aircraft into an aircraft which could function either as manned airl JUNE/JULY <strong>2013</strong> l 29
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