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01.01.1970 //The flying robot- tanks for it is combat in the city.
Company American Dynamics for the first time reported the program of the creation of new type unmanned vehicle financed from the non-government sources at the North American conference of the international association of the pilotless systems (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, AUVSI), of the past at the end of September of 2006 into Orlando. Now company presented further information - if it corresponds to reality, then the discussion can deal with the revolutionary developments, capable of substantially influencing the nature of war shooting in modern urban and anti-guerrilla war. BattleHog 100x BattleHog 100x is bpla with the fixed lifting surfaces, capable of acting both in the regime of vertical takeoff and landing (Vertical Take Off and Landing, VTOL) and in the regime of usual aircraft takeoff and landing. This makes possible its application both on dry land and at sea. Length BattleHog 100x is 3,8 m, spread is wing - 5,2 m, height - 1,5 m empty weight - 540 kg, maximum takeoff - 1450 kg, payload - 340 kg. ceiling - about 7 thousand m. maximum speed - 500 km/h, cruising - 333 km/h. Engine installation: T63-a720 or PW206, fuel- - Jet- A jp-4 Jp-5 Jp-8 Jp-9. the armoring of the apparatus of class I and II. Calculation of instrument board - from 1 to 3 man. The transmission distance of data along the channel of straight visibility - about 250 km the apparatus is intended for fulfilling the wide circle of tasks - conducting reconnaissance, monitoring of locality, aim designation and low-flying attack of purposes. Onboard equipment ensures full-automatic control of both the apparatus itself and of standard armament and with the payload of modular architecture. Complex BattleHog 100x includes in its composition 3 flight vehicles BattleHog 100x, ground instrument boards CS2, and also complexes of the means of connection and exchange of data. The basis of construction is the patented American Dynamics lift system on the basis of rotor with the high torque (High Torque Aerial Lift, HTAL). Its application, in the first place, made it possible to sharply decrease the overall sizes of rotors, "after hiding" them inside the fuselage, which simultaneously made it possible to decrease their vulnerability to the fire of enemy. From other side, system HTAL made it possible to ensure BattleHog 100x not only high load capacity, but also flexibility in the selection of the regimes of the application of an apparatus, possibility of vertical takeoff and landing, hovering and flight with the maximally low speeds, or, on the assertion of developers, the unique maneuverability of apparatus without the use of aerodynamic managers of surfaces (which also decreases vulnerability) or the complex systems of the thrust vector control, utilized in the contemporary flight vehicles for vertical takeoff and landing. Instrument board CS2 ensures direct control BattleHog 100x in flight (if necessary), preflight konfigurirovaniye in the regime of autonomous navigation, guarantee of application of armaments and of payload, and also exchange of data in flight. Station CS2 consists of instrument board on the base of armored car HMMWV ("Khamvi"), and also mobile conveyer. Is possible control of three located in air apparatuses BattleHog 100x simultaneously. Connection with the apparatuses and by other analogous stations is supported on protocol STANAG 7085, and also along the narrow-band channel in the microwave region with the transmission of data in the line-of-sight ranges, and by equipment of the satellite communication SATCOM for the transmission of data out of the line-of-sight ranges. The standard equipment BattleHog 100x includes thermal locator. Can be established the radar of lateral survey with synthesized aperture (miniSAR), meteodatchik, sensors of chemical and bacteriological weaponry, and also retranslator. Armament: PTUR Agm-114k Hellfire, Hydra-70, the machine gun Of myeya of the caliber of 7,62 mm. BattleHog 350x BattleHog 350x is further the development of the concept, placed in BattleHog 100x, and based on the application of new type of propeller - HTAL. BattleHog 350x can accomplish short takeoff and vertical landing on the platform (Short Take Off and Vertical Landing, STOVL), accomplish endurance flight with high cruising speed. The long range of flight and high speed, modular payload, and also possibility of equipping the apparatus with contemporary sensors and by high-precision weapon make it possible to use it for inflicting of impacts in the depth of the territory of enemy (concept Deep Strike). In the construction of glider contemporary composite carbon plastic materials and Kevlar are widely used, the low distinctness of apparatus in different ranges is provide ford. BattleHog 350x in flight 1 2 3 4 lengths BattleHog 350x is 12 m, spread is wing - 12 m, height - 1,5 m empty weight - 6800 kg, maximum takeoff - 16800 kg, payload - 4500 kg. ceiling - about 20 thousand m. of the data about the speed is not given. Engine installation: turbofan reheat engine, fuel- - Jet- A jp-4 Jp-5 Jp-8 Jp-9. the armoring of the apparatus of class I and II. Armament: aircraft bomb Gbu-28, aircraft bomb with the set of the high-precision guidance JDAM Gbu-29, Gbu-30, Gbu-32, Gbu-38, the rocket Aim-120, the automatic gun of caliber 20 mm. of the characteristic of apparatuses BattleHog 100x and BattleHog 350x and equipment with their aircraft machine guns and with guns I testify about the possibility of precision control of them both in the radio-command and in the autonomous flight conditions. It previously communicated that in the course of tests BattleHog 100x demonstrated the ability of autonomous flight in the scaffolding at the level of lower than the tops of trees. This can attest to the fact that in company American Dynamics they will reach the impressive progress in the field of creating the systems of preset control by the flying combat robots - and also about the fact that the use of propeller HTAL is capable of considerably simplifying control. Razmer?.zh.y and possibilities BattleHog 350x are capable of striking imagination - however the flight of the thought of designers American Dynamics at this did not stop. On the site of company are mentioned the following, promising developments - "heavy" BPLA S1K UAS for inflicting of deep bomb- assault impacts. Of no information about the characteristics of apparatus it is brought; however, if it "is great" even in the comparison with BattleHog 350x, then the discussion deals with the not having today analogs apparatus. Company proposes also apparatus WorkHog 100, intended for the commercial application. Information on it is not given; however, name makes it possible to assume that the discussion deals with the modification of apparatus BattleHog 100x. but also this not all. Of companies American Dynamics it is already tight in the Earth's atmosphere. On its site is announced the single-stage orbital apparatus SSOV (Single Stage Orbital Vehicle), the work on the project it began as early as 2001. It is assumed that it will become the following step in the development of the means of the delivery of payload after multistage rockets and reusable apparatuses of the type "shuttle". However, appearance SSOV thus far is unknown. Rakhman's Maxim