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Introduction
MQ-1C Warrior View of the aircraft Manufacturer General Atomics Role Combat drone (A combat drone (UCAV: Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle) is a special type of…) Status Upcoming deployment First flight (The first flight or maiden flight of an aircraft is the first opportunity for it to take…) spring (Spring (from the Latin primus, first, and tempus, time, this season once marking the…) 2008 Crew without Motorization Engine (An engine (from the Latin mĹŤtor: “the one who moves”) is a device…) Thielert “Centurion” Heavy-Fuel Engine Number (The notion of number in linguistics is treated in the article “Number…) 1 Turboprop type (A turboprop is a reactor that drives a multi-bladed propeller (8) via a reduction gear (9)….) Power (The word power is used in several areas with a particular meaning:) unit 135CV (100kW) Dimensions ( In common sense, the notion of dimension refers to the size; the dimensions of a part…) Wingspan (The wingspan is the distance between the ends of the wings. The term is valid for…) 17 m Length (The length of an object is the distance between its two extreme extremities…) 8 m Height (Height has several meanings depending on the area covered.) 2.1 m Maximum weight 1,451 kg Performance Maximum speed (We distinguish:) 215 km/h Ceiling (By extension, a ceiling represents the maximum of something:) 8,900 m Range 320 km Internal Armament (In France, this name means a doctor, pharmacist or dental surgeon, to the…) 4 x air-to-surface missiles AGM-114 Hellfire External guided bombs GBU-44/B Viper Strike modify
The MQ-1C Warrior is a combat drone developed by General Atomics for the US Army. He is sometimes called Sky Warrior. It is derived from the M/RQ-1 Predator
Development
In 2002, the US Army launched a call for tenders for an ERMP (Extended-Range Multi-Purpose = Long Range Multi Role) drone, with the objective of replacing the MQ-5 Hunter. Two planes were proposed: an improved version of the MQ-5 Hunter and the Warrior which won the tender in August 2005 with a contract of 214M$. The US Army intends to order 11 systems, each consisting of 12 Warrior aircraft and 5 ground control stations. The US Army intended to use the designation MQ-12 for the device, but the US Department of Defense retained MQ-1C.
Conception
The Warrior is of the MALE type (Medium Altitude (Altitude is the vertical elevation of a place or object relative to a level…) Long Endurance (Endurance is the ability to maintain over time a certain level of intensity…) = Average (The average is a statistical measurement characterizing the elements of a set of…) Altitude and Long Range) with an increased scope. Its engine is a “Centurion” Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) turboprop developed by the company Thielert which gives better performance at high altitude, better reliability (A system is reliable when the probability of fulfilling its mission over a period of time…) and easier maintenance. It has an autonomy of 36 hours (The hour is a unit of measurement:).
The nose (The nose (from the Latin nasus) is in humans the median protrusion of the face located above …) of the airplane (An airplane, according to the official definition of the Civil Aviation Organization international…) has been extended to house a Synthetic Aperture Radar. An AN/AAS-32 multi-spectral target acquisition system is also carried under the nose of the aircraft. The Warrior carries a load of 1,280 kg. It can be armed with AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles and GBU-44/B Viper Strike guided bombs.
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