Ryan BQM-34 Firebee jet-propelled drone, used as a target drone
A target drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle, generally remote controlled, usually used in the training of anti-aircraft crews.[1]
One of the earliest drones was the British DH.82 Queen Bee, a variant of the Tiger Moth trainer aircraft operational from 1935. Its name led to the present term "drone".[citation needed]
In their simplest form, target drones often resemble radio-controlled model aircraft. More modern drones may use countermeasures, radar, and similar systems to mimic manned aircraft.[2]
More advanced drones are made from large, older missiles which have had their warheads removed.[citation needed]
In the United Kingdom, obsolete Royal Air Force and Royal Navy jet and propeller-powered aircraft (such as the Fairey Firefly, Gloster Meteor and de Havilland Sea Vixen used at RAE Llanbedr between the 1950s and 1990s) have also been modified into remote-controlled drones, but such modifications are costly. With a much larger budget, the U.S. military has been more likely to convert retired aircraft or older versions of still serving aircraft (e.g., QF-4 Phantom II and QF-16 Fighting Falcon) into remotely piloted targets for US Air Force, US Navy and US Marine Corps use as Full-Scale Aerial Targets.[3][4]
Winston Churchill and the Secretary of State for War waiting to see the launch of a de Havilland Queen Bee radio-controlled target drone, 6 June 1941.
A targetdrone is an unmanned aerial vehicle, generally remote controlled, usually used in the training of anti-aircraft crews. One of the earliest drones...
operational UCAVs as of 2019. Drone attacks can be conducted by commercial UCAVs dropping bombs, firing a missile, or crashing into a target. Since the turn of the...
Lakshya ("Target" in Sanskrit) is a remotely piloted high speed Indian targetdrone system developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE)...
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs were originally...
combat aerial vehicles (drones) are more humane and more accurate than manned vehicles. Scholars are also divided as to whether targeted killings are an effective...
global tender projecting the requirement of 225 HEAT drones. Abhyas can be used as aerial target for missile systems. DRDO successfully test fired Abhyas...
training anti-aircraft gunners, and in 1935 he demonstrated a prototype targetdrone, the RP-1, to the US Army. Denny then bought a design from Walter Righter...
The HESA Karrar (Persian: کرار) is an Iranian jet-powered targetdrone manufactured by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA) since 2010...
capabilities and can be used as a loitering munition, but is mainly used as a targetdrone. The larger and more capable Ababil-3, introduced in the 2000s, was designed...
as a combat drone, fighter drone or battlefield UAV, is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition...
suicide drone, kamikaze drone, or exploding drone, is a kind of aerial weapon with a built-in warhead that is typically designed to loiter around a target area...
The Banshee, formerly the Target Technology Banshee or BTT3 Banshee, then Meggitt Banshee, is a series of British targetdrones developed from the 1980s...
KBLA-IVTs vertical take-off and landing drones". airrecognition. 27 December 2020. "Russia to field a new targetdrone system". shephardmedia. 19 March 2019...
small, expendable turbojet engine developed for use in cruise missiles, targetdrones, and other small unmanned air vehicles. Variants of this engine produce...
Kingdom in January 1958 at HMS Blackcap, RNAS Stretton, as a Pilotless DroneTarget Unit and moved to Malta towards the end of February 1958, becoming operational...
The GAF Jindivik is a radio-controlled targetdrone produced by the Australian Government Aircraft Factories (GAF). The name is from an Aboriginal Australian...
is a series of targetdrones developed by the Ryan Aeronautical Company beginning in 1951. It was one of the first jet-propelled drones, and remains one...
The McDonnell TD2D Katydid was a pulsejet-powered American targetdrone produced by McDonnell Aircraft that entered service with the United States Navy...
establishing the legal framework and policy guidelines for the drone strikes, which targeted suspected terrorists in Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan, but also...
over Southern Afghanistan, 2008 A QF-16 unmanned aerial targetdrone of the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron in 2013 Future military aircraft of the United...
Global Information
