Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Dragon Eye - UAV

Marines returning to Iraq will be equipped with the Dragon Eye Unmanned Air Vehicle system.

The Dragon Eye is an easy to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicle that can be handled with any Marine with a few hours basic training.

'“The average rifleman can be trained with a couple of hours of training. It doesn’t take a pilot to fly this,” Howcroft said.

“The beauty of the Dragon Eye UAV is we put the tool into in the hands of Marines and said, ‘We think this is a good piece of gear,’ and they figured out how to make it work and what tactical situations to use it in. It was not a bunch of colonels … who wrote this huge book on how to employ it tactically.”' Source - Marines to take popular Dragon Eye to Iraq

'The Dragon Eye Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is being developed as a small, fully autonomous, back-able, hand launched UAV to provide the Marine Corps an “over-the-next-hill, or building” tactical reconnaissance and surveillance capability. Dragon Eye’s operating altitude is between 300 and 500 feet above ground level, and has a video link range in excess of 5 kilometers. The aircraft’s payloads are capable of real-time high resolution day color, and low light black/white imagining. Dragon Eye’s electric motors provide an extremely low noise signature, and the small wingspan make it very difficult to detect. The air vehicle’s battery provide up to 60 minutes of flight time, and the aircraft has a flight weight approximating 5 pounds. The air vehicle can be assembled and launched by a two man team in approximately 10 minutes.' Source.

More Dragon Eye Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) links
- Dragon Eye UAV
- 3D Max Dragon Eye UAV
- Dragon Eye (DE) Interim-Small Unit Remote Scouting System (I-SURSS)

- Posted by Darren at February 21, 2004 11:08 PM | More from UAV Information |