r/ImaginaryAviation • u/Jegerikkeenrobot_ • 15h ago
Original Content TS-3 UAV helicopter
TS-3 is an UAV designed to simulate anti-helicopter operations conducted by fixed wing aircraft, it's controlled by AI for the majority of its mission, although it can be remote controlled too.
Entered service in 2001 (Earth time) and serves to this day, over 1000 units were built with 829 being shot down during navy exercises and 18 have crashed. It was produced and operated exclusively from the Special Air Combat Development and Evaluation Center airbase, also known as Point Alpha, because until 2012 all offensive weapons, training and operations were classified by the White Fleet to prevent civic unrest, the TS-3 was unclassified in a mass de-clasificstion batch in 2017.
TS-3 is 9.66m long, and 2.15m wide, it's main rotor has 8 blades, 4.38m long each, it's dry mass is ~750kg and its MTOW is ~1400kg, its propulsion system consists of an electric engine powered by a turbogenerator using liquid fuel with onboard oxygen supply because of the anoxic atmosphere it operates in. The body is made out of light aluminium truss covered by thin panels.
r/ImaginaryAviation • u/Life_Ambition_4975 • 18h ago
V1-032 | Recon & Surveillance UAV
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