Mini-RPVs, intended to explore feasibility and military utility of very low-cost vehicle for battlefield reconnaissance and laser target designation missions is one of four built by Philco-Ford. The 30-lb. avionics playload, housed in removable capsule, contains a wide-angle tv camera for vehicle navigation plus narrow-angle tv camera and miniature laser designator whose lines-of-sight are gyro-stabilized. Plastic radom encloses gyro-stabilized mirror. Slightly heavier night-operations version will carry infrared imaging sensor.
Mini-RPVs Tested for Battlefield Use
Ferngesteuerte Mini-Flugzeuge fuer Kriegseinsatz
Aviation Week and Space Technology ; 98 , 4 ; 76-77
1973
2 Seiten, 2 Bilder
Article (Journal)
English
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