Nano Unmanned Air System
- A miniature Unmanned Air System, weighing as little as 200gms, that will deliver man-portable ‘over the hill’ Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) for the infantry soldier
Remote Video Terminals
- Providing imagery downlink feds from a wide range of ISTAR collectors
- Supporting Land Component Commander and Naval Operations
Desert Hawk III Unmanned Air Vehicle
Delivering highly flexible and responsive ISTAR to the front-line soldiers today:
- Supporting front line troops on current operations
- Small and portable delivering day/night ISTAR
- Operated and maintained by the Royal Artillery
Hermes 450
Delivering ISTAR to front line soldiers today and informing tomorrow’s requirements:
- Delivering day/night ISTAR to current operations
- Operated and maintained by the Royal Artillery
- Multiple Tasking Lines
- Delivering full motion video to the LAND Commander
Watchkeeper
Due to enter service in 2012:
- Delivering day/night, all weather, expeditionary ISTAR capability
- Operated and maintained by the Royal Artillery
- Delivering full motion video to the LAND Commander
- Automatic take-off and landing
Reaper
Provides an armed Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capability 24 hours per day:
- Remotely flown by the RAF’s 39 Squadron
- Synthetic aperture radar, real-time video and infra-red sensors
- Disseminating imagery to front-line soldiers and operational commanders
- Capable of carrying air-to-ground Missiles & Laser guided bombs
- In-theatre contractor logistic support
Taranis
Joint-funded Technical Demonstrator Project will show the integration of off-the-shelf technologies:
- Signature reduction
- Air vehicle performance
- Vehicle maintenance
- Command and control
- Communications integration
- Payload integration (emulated weapons release)
Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE)
- An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle that can fly for extended durations of time (up to 48 hours) and is capable of undertaking persistent ISTAR at all levels of command:
- Where required, able to provide timely precision strike against a defined target set
- On 2 Nov 10 the UK FR Summit announced the intent for the UK to collaborate with France in jointly managing the Assessment Phase of the MALE programme. The programme is currently in the Assessment Phase.
Page updated 11 August 2011