Malaysia's Eagle Airborne Reconnaissance Vehicle (UAV)
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found the info on the net dated 2002, sorry no pics of the eagle 150.
enjoy.
Malaysia recently unveiled its Eagle Airborne Reconnaissance Vehicle (EARV) at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition. It is being manufactured by Composites Technology Research Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Melaka, Malaysia), in partnership with Excelnet Sdn Bhd (Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia) and BAE Systems Controls (Johnson City, NY).
The EARV is based upon the two-seat Eagle 150 airplane, built by Eagle Aircraft PTY Ltd. of Australia. The Eagle 150 was chosen as the platform in part because of its lightweight composite construction and good performance-to-weight ratio. The EARV has been designed for use in military applications including incursion detection; intelligence gathering; and monitoring of troop movement, borders, and terrorist activities. Coastal and environmental law enforcement applications are said to include shipping surveillance and monitoring of open burning, illegal logging, piracy and movement of illegal immigrants.
The initial $ 12.4M project developed for the Malaysian Armed Forces consists of three Eagle aircraft, a ground control station and a remote receiving station. The aircraft is approximately the size of the popular Cessna 172 aircraft, although its fore-and-aft wing canard configuration is unusual and lends itself to enhanced performance. It is said to cruise at 120 knots and have a ten-hour flying endurance. It is equipped with a belly-mounted electro-optical surveillance camera affording an unobstructed 360-degree view. BAE Systems supplied the electronics and associated systems, while modification and systems integration were carried out jointly by Excelnet and BAE. -
here got pic... its basically a small plane...
http://www.janes.com/defence/gallery/lima_gallery/gallery/0003.shtml -
That's a rather uncoventional arrangement of wings, what looks like a canard plus tail plane! All at 200knots?
It's a modern version of a bi-plane? What's the advantage of this configuration may I ask? Seems draggy to me....... -
http://www.ctrm.com.my/product.html
eagle was design by an australian company and which was later bought overy by malaysia govt. same thing happened to LANCAIR. at that time, the govt official who started the eagle program also started the EAA chapter in malaysia. he pushed for alot of general aviation things, during that time, the singapore and malayisan general aviation community was pretty closed. singapore flying club participated in alot of fly ins in various parts of malaysia.
pictures of it are in these 2 galleries.
http://www.wingsoverasia.com/gallery/album27?&page=2
http://www.singaporeflyingclub.com/gallery/perlis?page=4 -
its seems to be that you really dun know anything about aircraft, i suspect you cut and paste somethings and pretend that you wrote it.Originally posted by Fairyland:That's a rather uncoventional arrangement of wings, what looks like a canard plus tail plane! All at 200knots?
It's a modern version of a bi-plane? What's the advantage of this configuration may I ask? Seems draggy to me....... -
As the design is based on a civilian a/c, it should be relatively cheap to build and maintain.
With a larger airframe then conventional UAV, should also be quite easy to install and upgrade sensors and other gizmos.
But I think it will make too large a target! so big. it will be sitting sitting ducks for modern AAA or alert MG gunners. -
Well, I guess I'm not into aerodynamics......ya I'm not a pilot too.Originally posted by cavsg:its seems to be that you really dun know anything about aircraft, i suspect you cut and paste somethings and pretend that you wrote it.
But I'm lucky to have spent quite some time around planes.
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so does alot of existing uav designs. the big problem with this a/c is the noise. they could also have improved the payload by removing the canonpy and cockpit and fitting a bigger fuel tank, 26usgal is a bit too little for that kind of engine. this a/c is stable compared to other single piston due to the canard in front.Originally posted by spencer99:As the design is based on a civilian a/c, it should be relatively cheap to build and maintain.
With a larger airframe then conventional UAV, should also be quite easy to install and upgrade sensors and other gizmos.
But I think it will make too large a target! so big. it will be sitting sitting ducks for modern AAA or alert MG gunners. -
according to the eagle company website cost of 1 plane is USD138k if built and assembled in aust for commercial purposes. Currently their plant in australia has stopped and moved to melaka, the plant in melaka now able to churn out 30-50 planes a year. Probably cost cheaper now.Originally posted by spencer99:As the design is based on a civilian a/c, it should be relatively cheap to build and maintain.
With a larger airframe then conventional UAV, should also be quite easy to install and upgrade sensors and other gizmos.
But I think it will make too large a target! so big. it will be sitting sitting ducks for modern AAA or alert MG gunners.
I think besides military probably they will do commercial business also, there's a lot of interest to learn flying in malaysia now post 911.
But will be interesting to see if Mebbe besides uav they will come out with a gunship version also like the OV bronco's the indonesians have.