Rheinmetall Typhoon
| Rheinmetall Typhoon | |
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| Type: | TUAS |
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| First flight: |
December 2002 |
| Commissioning: |
Development canceled in 2003 |
| Number of pieces: |
1 |
The Rheinmetall typhoon was a project to develop an unmanned air vehicle (UAV, by the British unmanned aerial vehicle ) to search, identification and precise combat military individual objects. The Taifun was developed on the basis of the Rheinmetall KZO . After the first flight in December 2002, the development of the Taifun 2003 was discontinued due to technical and legal problems associated with an autonomous attack decision by an unmanned system. After the failure of the Typhoon, Rheinmetall began a follow-up program, Tactical Advanced Recce Strike System , from which Rheinmetall TARES emerged .
technology
After a booster start using a rocket engine, the aircraft should be powered by a diesel engine. The high-performance motor specially developed for UAV by AVL Schrick would have allowed the aircraft, which weighs around 160 kg, to have an average mission speed of 200 km / h. The optional use of an infrared camera or a radar search head would have enabled reliable target identification using high-resolution image material even at night or in bad weather. The image data would have been sent from the drone to the ground station via an encrypted radio link. The aircraft had a planned payload capacity of approx. 50 kg, a maximum altitude of 4,000 m and a maximum total flight time of four hours. The core of the drone's capabilities would have been the autonomous processing of the information by the on-board computer, which would have enabled the autonomous detection of preprogrammed target types.