Amr Uav Directory 2011
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AMR UAV DIRECTORY 2011 Prepared by Adam Baddeley l SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011 l 45 R E G I O N A L UAV DIRECTORY ith Asia-Pacific’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) ranks Wswelling, thanks to a combi - nation of international acqui - sitions as well as an increasingly vigorous and innovative domestic production and development base, it is the right time to begin AMR’s first annual Directory of UAV activity in the region. It addresses both in service systems, ongoing procurement pro - grammes and research and development efforts. Some countries have not yet begun to deploy UAVs whereas others, notably China is sponsoring the development of a myriad of different and competing designs although few are yet to see large scale serv - ice while other still notably Singapore have plans developed over time that are being steadily and coherently implemented. The UAV Directory has been researched using a range of resources notably AMR cor - respondents, industry experts and serving military personnel throughout the region as well as open sources. AAI’s RQ-7B/Shadow 200 has AUSTRALIA been selected for Australia’s JP129 Phase 2 UAV programme FIELDED and is an increasingly unlikely Heron, IAI; Project Nankeen lease via option for Pakistan despite being MacDonald Dettwiler extended to end 2012, offered by the US under its mili - supporting Army and RAAF units from tary aid programme © AJB Kandahar which began in Jan 2010 Scan Eagle, Isitu/Boeing; Interim Tier 2 type requirement until Shadow 200 fielded. Heron 1, IAI; Six week, A$5.5m trial with UAV deferred and involvement in US BAMS Deployed Iraq 2006-8 and in Afghanistan Border Protection Command May-June programme cancelled in March 2009 and will since 2007 where it has logged over 25,000 2008 with 80 hours flying in maritime receive government consideration again in operational flight hours by July 2011. surveillance trial equipped with ELTA 2022 2016. In June, Northrop Grumman and Skylark I, Elbit Systems; Eight systems multimode radar Australia’s DoD signed a Global Supply ordered in Nov 2005 onwards with 20 STA Aqua Puma, AeroVironment; Naval trials in Chain agreement to aid Australian compa - Reg. deployed to E Timor and Iraq, further early 2007 nies becoming supply partners. orders subsequently RQ-7B Shadow 200, AAI; TUAV in US serv - Aerosonde III, AAI; Four Aerosondes sent ice selected under JP129 Phase 2 and CHINA to the Solomon Islands on Operation Anode requested from US DCSA in May 2011, with FIELDED with Army’s 131 STA Battery Australian decision in second half of 2011 BZK-005, Beijing University of Aeronautics Avatar, Condarra; 18 UAVs acquired since RQ-8A Fire Scout, Northrop Grumman; and Astronautics; MALE UAV thought to 2001 deployed to E. Timor with ADF SF in Company believes it has interest have been in limited service since 2009 2003, status unknown RQ-4 Global Hawk, Northrop Grumman; Pterodactyl 1/Yilong, AVIC; Predator-like Flew non-stop to Australia in 2001 and took MALE with 400km range first seen in 2008 TRIALS AND DEVELOPMENT past in joint exercise Tandem Thrust. with initial development completed in 2009 I-View 250, IAI; Original JP129 Phase 2 Planned to acquire the UAV as part of its and production beginning during 2010 and A$145m contract in 2006 awarded to Boeing participation in BAMS project but dropped can be equipped with AR-1 missiles Australia as prime with IAI I-View 250 UAV out in 2009 although options remain for W-30/W-50 series, NRIST; Sometimes cancelled in Sept 2008 maritime and littoral surveillance from 2016 called PW-1 and entered service with the Maritime Ranges Sensor Delivery System, People’s Liberation Army during 2005, Mincham Aviation; Able to deploy NOTES: TUAV requirement in JP129 Phase radius of 100km. Later PW-2 version has sonobuoys 15nm in trials with RAN as of 4 with IOC in 2013-15. Unmanned aspect of longer range late 2010 Air 7000, known as 1B for a HALE maritime ASN206/7, Xian ASN Technology; In serv - 46 l ASIAN MILITARY REVIEW l R E G I O N A L UAV DIRECTORY TRIALS AND DEVELOPMENT wing design CH-3, CASIC; MALE 12 hour endurance, Soarhawk, Sunward; Described as similar canard design 108nm radius in advanced to piston engined ADCOM SAT-400, status development, first seen in public in 2008, unknown reported to be fitted with FT-5 small PGMs. DUF-2, BUAA; Hand launched SUAV Links to requirements in Brunei and Wing Long, AVIC; Completed flight testing Cambodia in Oct 2008, 20 hour endurance WJ-600, CASIC; Global Hawk-like design Anjian/Darksword, Shenyang Aircraft Co.; for maritime surveillance, turbo-jet pow - UCAV in early development ered, options for air to surface engagement, in early development NOTES: Images of Global-Hawk type Long Haul Eagle, AVIC; Another Global design seen a runway in Google Earth pics Hawk like design, status unknown at Chendghu Aircraft Corporation No.132 ASN-229A, Xian ASN Technology; 20hr factory. Chinese Naval UAV, possibly endurance, armed UAV, in testing phase ASN209 Silver Eagle filmed by Japanese could enter service in 2011 Maritime Self-Defense Force aircraft sur - ASN-213, Xian ASN Technology; 5Kg veilling a 11 ship strong PLAN fleet in east - design with in-flight morphing design first ern Philippine Sea while it was returning seen in 2008 from a gunnery exercise in June 2011 Night Eagle, AVIC; Hand launched, similar to Aerosonde INDIA Whirlwind Scout, AVIC; Compact VTOL FIELDED ducted fan design Searcher I & II, IAI; India’s Army and Navy U8E, AVIC; Lightweight VTOL design are understood to have acquired 18 and shown at Singapore Airshow 2010 possibly as many as 50-70 UAVs SL-200, CASC; Armed HALE, described as a Lakshya, DRDO/ADE & HAL; High speed stealthy design reusable drone with 100 now in service. CH-802, CASIC; Hand launched similar to Israel pulled out of Lakshya buy in 2005 Pointer Heron I/II, IAI; IAF order in 2002 for four V750, Qingdao Haili Helicopter Manufac - UAVs. Navy ordered 12 in 2005 and oper - turing Co; Rotary wing UAV ates the UAVs in two mixed units alongside Tian Yi-3, LOEC; High speed HALE its Searcher UAVs. Potential requirement ice with PLA Warrior Eagle, AVIC; Only sketches for 50 UAVs RMAX, Yamaha Motor Company; Nine sys - seen publicly and may utilise a morphing Harpy, IAI; 30 in service delivered from 2005 tems procured in 2001 for paramilitary use ASN-15, Xian ASN Technology; Hand The Nishant TUAV has been developed by the DRDO launched UAV in 2000 largely used for test and ARDE since 1990 with 12 of the UAVs being and proof of concept ordered in 2005. Four have been delivered so far ASN-104/5B, Xian ASN Technology; In with two of them crashing in April 2010 © AJB service with PLA ASN-206/207, Xian ASN Technology; Developed from mid 1990s, range of 150km, ASN-207 first seen publicly in 2002, in limited service ASN-209, Xian ASN Technologies; Twin- boom pusher design called Silver Eagle in PLAN service, reported to be tested by PLA as comms relay in June 2011 I-Z, Z-3, Z-2, NRIST; Rotary wing design some military and paramilitary use from early 2000s Harpy, IAI; Sold to China in 1994, When China returned the Harpy for maintenance, US concerns over possibility of upgrade to Harop standard, saw Israel return the UAV in 2005 l SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011 l 47 R E G I O N A L UAV DIRECTORY Northrop Grumman’s MQ-4C BAMS UAV was reported to have been submitted in response to an Indian Navy RFI for a maritime HALE UAV issued in October 2010 © Northrop Grumman Harop/Harpy II, IAI; 10 UAV/Loitering from various sources. AAI reported to have Application of Technology; 10km range tac - Munition ordered by IAF in 2009 in $100m recently demonstrated T-Hawk UAV to tical UAV using a flying wing design deal with video datalink system. Deliveries Ministry of Homeland Affairs at IGI airport. ALAP, Agency for the Assessment and start in 2011 Four Searcher Mk II UAVs deployed to Application of Technology; 25kg, 50km Tezpur and Chabua. Army Aviation bases range UAV TRIALS AND DEVELOPMENT in Assam. ‘TUAV’, Agency for the Assessment and Rustom 1, DRDO/ARDE; First successful Application of Technology; 120kg UAV test flight in Oct. 2010 after prototype INDONESIA with a range of 120km. Three design shape crashed in November 2009, 12-15hour FIELDED prototypes; the BPPT-01A “Wulung” with endurance, airframe built by Zephyr IFox AT1, CAC/EADS; Four UAVs with a Hi rectangular-wing, Low Boom T-tail, the Aerospace. Due to begin series production fixed wing design fielded with Armed BPPT-01B “Gagak” with Lo rectangular- in 2012-13 Forces Strategic Intelligence Agency and Air wing, Low Boom V-Tail and the BPPT-02A Rustom HALE, DRDO/ARDE; MALE UAV Force in Bandung in early 2000s. Contract “Wulung” with a Hi rectangular-wing, Hi in development for tri-service customers, valued at $10m and issues over non-deliv - Boom Inverted V-Tail design also precursor for UCAV development pro - ery of rotary wing UAVs. UAVs withdrawn totype in 2014-15, 12-15 hour endurance and from service in 2006 NOTES: Pesawat Udara Nir-Awak or 45kg payload SS-5, PT Wesco Aerospace; one or more sys - PUNA is the Bahasa Indonesia acronym for Nishant, DRDO/ARDE; Development tems reported to be deployed to Aceh in UAV. Indonesia has been carrying out a began in 1990 trial completed in Feb. 2011. 2005 programme headed by the government's 12 Nishants ordered in 2005 with four deliv - Aerosonde, AAI; Deployed with paramili - Agency for the Assessment and Application ered so far and two crashing in April 2010.