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Each $100,000 Dragon Eye unit has three aircraft, a ground control station
(radio transmitter / receiver, laptop) and maintenance equipment.
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Operator's training requires less than a week, for soldiers to be able to
operate them.
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The new system, currently under development, will have a new Level-4 compliant
communications control board, with 16 software selectable channels, for uplink
and downlink, twice the current capacity.
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Aerovironment Dragon Eye Unmanned Aircraft
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features
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fully autonomous operation, in-flight reprogramming, small size, lightweight,
bungee launched, waypoint navigation, laptop mapping, image capture
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payloads
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interchangeable nose assembly, containing dual forward and side looking EO
camera (standard and low light level versions), or, side looking 640 x 480 pixel
infra-red camera
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endurance
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45 – 60 minutes on a single use battery
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operating altitude
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30 – 300 m above ground level
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launch method
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by hand or through the use of a Bungee cord
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recovery method
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horizontal skid landing
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comms link
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live video link to 10 Km
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speed
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cruise 35, max 65 Kph
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length
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0.9 m
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range
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5 Km
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wing span
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1.1 m
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weight
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2.7 Kg
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This photo is of the Dragon Eye UAV system at work in Fallujah.
Photo by LTC Norm Root
From
http://www.defense-update.com/products/d/dragoneyes.htm
From
http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20052111.asp
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