Target imaging drone
Target display drones are unmanned, remote-controlled aircraft . They serve the realistic training and exercise of air defense forces .
By using a target display drone, anti-aircraft forces can practice realistically capturing, tracking and, if necessary, shooting an aircraft without endangering human life.
The alternative use of decoys for target display has the decisive disadvantage that the target display is less dynamic. In the event of target-seeking anti-aircraft missiles being fired at, the crew of the towing aircraft would also be exposed to a high degree of danger.
Missiles specially manufactured as target display drones include:
- Airspeed Queen Wasp
- De Havilland Queen Bee
- Miles Queen Martinet
- Ryan Firebee
- GAF Jindivik
- BQM-74 Chukar
- Denel Dynamics SKUA
- Do-DT family
- Mirach 100
- Lavochkin La-17
In other cases, retired aircraft have also been converted to target display drones, such as the North American L-17 , Fairey Firefly , Gloster Meteor , De Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen , QF-104 , QF-102 , QF-106 and McDonnell Douglas QF-4 . Modern drones - such as B. the Do-DT family - also have electronic protective measures , infrared counter measures and radar amplifiers, as well as IR signature shaping to enable a more realistic target representation.
