SG 50kg payload Fully Autonomous Tactical UAV

lionnoisy SG

What do you want SG 50kg payload Fully Autonomous Tactical UAV
to be fitted with?
Guided missiles,...u name it.

Skyblade IV Fully Autonomous Tactical UAV

Homegrown capability build-up in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

..The UAVs small size and low signature help them remain longer in the air, while also allowing them to be less detectable. This makes UAVs useful for carrying out missions such as reconnaissance, surveillance, damage-assessment, search and rescue, as well as maritime and coastal patrol over wider areas, with no risk to pilot life.

The UAV, Skyblade IV, can perform its mission continuously for up to 12 hours or more, carrying a maximum paylod of 50kg....

Weighing less than 8 kg, the robust and modular Skyblade II is able to fly at an altitude of more than 3,000 ft. It is a joint project with ST Aerospace

DSO AR 2005 page 17

DSO is now working with Singapore Technologies on the full-scale development of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle called SkyBlade IV. When completed at the end of this year(2006), it will enable the SAF to tap on unmanned aerial vehicles for a variety of operational missions such as surveillance and reconnaissance.

pl read 03.nov 2005 posting.

2.compare with Sparrow-N UAV

cydus21 SG

missle?? i dun think soo…. AMRAAM is 152kg AIM 9 is 91kg python is 104 +- hellfire maybe but at 50kg min i really doubt so. and i think there is a policy about armed UAV right?

chino65 SG

How "fully" autonomous is this thing?

Does it make decisions of its own etc?

Fatum SG

if some more robbers chabot from johor to tekong, can find or not ? .....

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

Hmm… It almost seems to me, that with a little jury rigging, this thing could be turned into a cruise missile.

tankee1981 SG

I concur...maybe the UAV classification for this 'UAV' is to act as a disguise for its real purpose as a cruise missile. Cool

d3athy SG

i doubt sg UAV can be fitted with any kinds of armments , its simply doesnt have enuff payload for missiles or anything , unless they came up with a new design for UAV .

Rockhound SG

its an evolution uh..

the first US predator was small...

now its huge........

sg will follow suit i think

if they arent backward thinking

Alvin.Yeoh SG

How much damage would 50Kg of explosives do?

That looks seriously like a mini cruise missile of sorts.

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

Well, one can merely extend its usage and designing a larger version to carry a larger payload...

tankfanatic SG

50 kilo is strong enough to destroy a house…let say a terrorist safe house?

wonderamazement SG

Predator can hold and deploy Hellfire missiles right?

Rockhound SG

yup....current predator is huge

equlus84 SG

I think the skyblade4 can be transform into a UAV glide bomb. Due to it’s small size, ST can transform it into a autonomous search and destroy UAV, in which the UAV detects eg. a radar station, it glides itself to attack it. They can also create a navalised version to attack enemy vessels, eg. enemy patrol boats….

wonderamazement SG

I remember seeing it at the previous Asian Aerospace... Was almost the size of a F16! Cool

d3athy SG

predator is huge , considering having pay loads of helfire missile to strike . If our UAV are to modify or come out with new design , imagine how big it gona get and the cost of maintaining it , just to fit it with firepower. Just wait till nano tech is out and stable ... everything is gona be small Razz

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

There are however limits on how small things can get.

gary1910 SG

Our Hermes 450 with a payload of 150kg is reported to be able to carry 2 Spike-ER.

There are report that during recent Lebanon war, Israeli UAVs have fired missiles at that time, likely to be Hermes 450.

Btw , Isreali is reported to working on a new large UAV called Eitan which is abt the size a commercial jet!!!

More info here:
http://militarynuts.com/index.php?showtopic=1452