Uninhabited and Unafraid, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)

[ChernayaAkula]

Greg, didn't you do a UCAV-Hind one day? Because I got this little idea. How about UCAV-ing an Ka-50?

Now, take a Revell 1/144 Ka-50, give it the UCAV-treatment and pose it next to a 1/35 truck and figures? In other words, a 1/4.5 or something Ka-50. Give it two 1/35 AT-16s and a seven-shot rocket pod and you've got yourself a neat hunter/killer UCAV-chopper able to render air support to troops in remote areas. The former 30mm gun would now be a 7.62mm weapon.

[GTX]

Greg, didn't you do a UCAV-Hind one day? Because I got this little idea. How about UCAV-ing an Ka-50?

Now, take a Revell 1/144 Ka-50, give it the UCAV-treatment and pose it next to a 1/35 truck and figures? In other words, a 1/4.5 or something Ka-50. Give it two 1/35 AT-16s and a seven-shot rocket pod and you've got yourself a neat hunter/killer UCAV-chopper able to render air support to troops in remote areas. The former 30mm gun would now be a 7.62mm weapon.

This one - the Autonomously Piloted Assault Transport:



See here for others.

Regards,

Greg

[Fulcrum]

I modified my Mig-23 model into a UCAV!
I got inspired after reading the MIG-Canadian success story with the line drawing of a Mig-23X. Looks like the drawing (can't able to post pictures due to technological reasons- too poor & too dumb to work a digital camera) & I kept the BVR missiles on the model to act as ARM's(Anti-Radiation Missiles) to act in the Wild Weasel role (don't need to risk pilots in order to hunt SAM's). I also added stuff so it could be used in a recon./ELINT role & could be used for stragetic bombing (bombing fixed emeny army bases. Could help ease the burden of missions for the Mig-29M(My favourite aircraft - could be inspiration for alternative history topic "Typical Mission of a Mig-29M pilot", which could see Mig-29Ms escorting Mig-23X/Q-23s on a mission over a target near a emeny fighter base).

[Talos]

How about this one I roughed out about 6 months ago. It's a heavily modified F-16 fuselage with the wings and head of the Ghost booster from the Macross VF-0S kit.

MQ-12 Howler

[Talos]

Sure, I threw it onto my photobucket for you.

[GTX]

Cool X-47B UCAS-D Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aZwZ3kyu-I

Regards,

Greg

[Fulcrum]

What if you need a strike aircraft, but you got old strike jets & no pilots willing to be on kamikaze one-way missions in those jets, what do you do? Convert them to be unmanned. (A week ago, I found a defense paper on the internet saying that the days of the manned strike bomber are over, due to new S.A.M.s which will make it unsafe for them to do their missions. The paper had a focus on UAV/UCAVs, Cruise Missiles launched from far away(i.e. Storm Shadow) & ISTAR units(like the E-3 AWACS & E-8 JSTARS covering the battle theater from hundreds of miles away).

I present to you the Su-17 Fitter UCAV...

[Zeke]

And one can't leave the USN out of the picture:



Regards,

Greg

Having only just got back on here after a few months away I was astonished and not a little dismayed, to see this kind of irresponsible disregard for a true classic! I was disgusted to see the way this beautiful old lady has been treated and I very nearly up-chucked by toast and coffee when I saw this. Greg, you should be ashamed of yourself, deeply, deeply ashamed. The Correct People have been informed of your unimaginable perversions and they will be coming round to get you, you evil minded little deviant!

I'm gonna build it!... 

[Fulcrum]

I got more conversions:
-Mig-25 UCAV, to be used in high alitutde recon./combat (don't need a pilot to wear a pressure suit on the ground)
-Mig-21 UCAV, could be bought & used in large numbers without the need to train conscript pilots
-F-104 UCAV, if you take the pilot out of there, it would be a "smart missile(without a man in it)"(generally safe unless it crashes over you )

[Daryl J.]

There is a Tamiya Gloster Meteor F.3 on the way over from Japan specifically earmarked for conversion to a Meteor R.UAV variant in overall white and hi viz markings.   WM serial number possible.......

And am seriously giving thought to doing the same to the Airfix Canberra PR.9.



Daryl J.

[GTX]

And one can't leave the USN out of the picture:



Regards,

Greg

Having only just got back on here after a few months away I was astonished and not a little dismayed, to see this kind of irresponsible disregard for a true classic! I was disgusted to see the way this beautiful old lady has been treated and I very nearly up-chucked by toast and coffee when I saw this. Greg, you should be ashamed of yourself, deeply, deeply ashamed. The Correct People have been informed of your unimaginable perversions and they will be coming round to get you, you evil minded little deviant!

I'm gonna build it!... 

I am Evil Greg...I am Evil Greg...



Regards,

Greg

[GTX]

Something new - what if Boeing decided to turn the X32 into a UCAV:



Regards,

Greg

[Daryl J.]

Greg,
Be very careful with that profile!   Boeing is going to send out the men in black cars and clothing to haul you off to Sing Sing!!!!   

Beautifully done Monica. 


Daryl J.

[Spey_Phantom]

all those modified manned planes, its Ace Combat 3 all over again 

you should check out some of these planes here
http://electrosphere.info/index.php?showforum=238

[jcf]

A real world concept just for Mossie. 

Lockheed L-159 from 1946, an attempt to explore the P-80's potential as a long-range, high-speed,
guided missile. It was to have been used against both strategic and tactical targets.  Major changes
included removal of the cockpit and associated bits. Removal of the landing gear, an increase in
internal fuel capacity to 830 gallons (1,160 gallons with tip tanks), and the addition of a 2,000 pound
warhead in the nose bay area just above the original gun bay. The gun bay became the radio control
equipment bay. Aft of the radio control equipment bay was to be the hydraulic control actuator bay
which was interfaced with the original control stick and rudder pedal assemblies. For short range missions,
the fuselage fuel tank could be reduced in size to accommodate a larger warhead. Range with the 2,000
pound warhead was projected to be approximately 3,000 miles at a cruising speed of 520 mph.
With water injection, cruising speeds over shortranges were expected to be 600 mph at sea level.
Launching was to be via a statically positioned surface-based 300-ft long launch rail and carriage or
from a modified transport aircraft (among aircraftprojected was the Lockheed R60-1 Constitution with
a single L-159 suspended from each outer wing panel). Remote control would be from a ground station,
a ship, or the carrier aircraft.

Cheers, Jon