Where is SG's MAV-Multirole Autonomous Vehicle?

lionnoisy SG

Dunt under estimate Singapore defense ability!!

1.Have u seen it flying in South China Sea?

Multirole Autonomous Vehicle---Really autonomous?
AWESOME ,TOP SECRET MUST SEE. MAV closer look.

Originally posted by tripwire:

4.READY FIR TAKEOFF
[quote]The Asian Aerospace has just ended but Singapore's homemade Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will soar this month in a series of test flights. PATRICK CHIA reports
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero) has been working on the project for two years.
04 March 2004

Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero) has been working on the project for two years.

It's a black, wedge-shaped MAV-1 or Multirole Autonomous Vehicle (right) will take to the skies this month.

Dr Tan Jiak Kwang, ST Aero's chief engineer, said the MAV-1, which looks like the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter, is built entirely out of composites.

The 'batwing' is powered by a single turbofan engine producing 100lbs of thrust.

Over the next six months, a series of tests will be conducted on the flight systems.

Right now, the demonstrator, as they call it, can carry a load of 20kg of equipment like cameras and sensors. It has a wingspan of 1.8m.

If the tests prove successful, a scaled-up version can be built. It will have a wingspan of 8m and should be able to carry 800kg. The range is expected to be comparable to that of a jet fighter.

Another device from the same manufacturer, shown recently at Asian Aerospace, is the Fan Tail UAV.

It is slightly more than twice the height of this page, and can take off and land vertically and fly horizontally.

Built to withstand strong winds, it can hover for up to 30 minutes.

This little UAV, which can also be scaled-up, can be used militarily for looking over hills at enemy positions.

It can see around corners and between trees and buildings, providing an ideal observation platform for law enforcers fighting urban crime.

Other potential uses include border patrols, inspection of industrial facilities, spotting forest fires, chemical cloud detection and aerial surveys.---http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,53359,00.html

tripwire SG

http://www.stengg.com/media/aerospacecorp.wmv

download the video link above.. at 2:08, there is a very very short display of the MAV-1 testing its engine and doing a takeoff run on a "runway".

tripwire SG

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/resources/videos/features/2007/jan.html

mindef latest video .... at 8:34... we can see some people loading the aster missile into the sylver launcher.

warspite SG

I think that's a Barak launcher.....not an Aster. The size is just too small to be an Aster.

tripwire SG

i think the barak not so big...

lionnoisy SG

2.Thanks all ferns here sharing.Can you pl post in You tube as permanent
records for sometimes these vidoes will be taken out.

spartan6 SG

Fitted it with 2 HELLFIRE in a internal bay & Shocked our own UCAV

lionnoisy SG

LALEE to replace E2C?

Brévot explains that LALEE is still undefined, but that Singapore's requirement is for a much larger aircraft than the Eagle, with a take-off weight in the 15t class.

He points out however that two or three Eagles operating together, using sensor fusion techniques, could fulfil the same requirement, and could do so more cheaply.

2.Burt Rutan is involved in LALEE!!

LALEE OF Sg

The project acronym is LALEE, which stands for low-altitude long-enduring endurance, but the low is a relative term, meaning that this platforms projected cruising altitude of 60,000 feet is lower than that of satellite surveillance systems. Endurance is self-explanatory, meaning a long dwell time such as is already demonstrated by the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. Long-enduring is a reference to the DSOs aim that this platform should be in service for 30 years.......

Prof. Lui Pao Chuen. He showed delegates attending the C4I conference a twin-boom design with (naturally) a long wing. Little has been said since, although a government minister did acknowledge last November that the LALEE was a potential E-2C Hawkeye replacement in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF).

Unlike the Global Hawk, Predator-B and U-2, which rule todays high-altitude skies, the LALEE is a twin-boom, twin-engine design. The two powerplants are for redundancy, but also to provide increased electrical power to the sensors. The sensor payloads would presumably be modular and interchangeable, as they are on the Global Hawk and the U-2.

In the early stages of this project, the DSO(of Sg)engaged maverick U.S. designer Burt Rutan as a consultant. Rutans company, Scaled Composites, has developed its own high-altitude, twin-boom, twin-engine design, the Proteus. It is not known whether Rutan continues to advise the DSO on the LALEE, which is somewhat largerapproximately the wingspan and fuselage length of a Boeing 737, and with an mtow of about 15 tons.

The intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) community will be watching the LALEE development with interest, since it could potentially offer an alternative to the current U.S. dominance of the HALE market, at a time when interest in these platforms is taking off around the world. For instance, at the UAV conference earlier this week, EADS Internationals senior vice president Gen. Jean-Georges Brevot noted that France could be expected to introduce a HALE UAV between 2010 and 2015.

--http://www.ainonline.com/Publications/asian/asian_04/d3_dronep3.html
Singapore/EADS may do spy drone,by Chris Pocock