Bristol Aerospace Robot-X

[hesham]

Hi,

I found this BAe Robot-X in google books,what is this.

Airplane Aerodynamics and Performance

books.google.com.eg

 

[flateric]

first, British Aerospace (BAe) and Canadian Bristol Aerospace are quite different species
second, third, why Google is not so popular again?

bristol aerospace robot-x - Google Search

www.google.com

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http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/john-rooney/16/1b8/669

http://www.uavs.ca/outreach/HistoryUAVs.pdf

Defence Research Establishment Suffield
In 1979, under the auspices of the Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP), a joint US/Canadian feasibility
study was undertaken to improve the US Army Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS) using Canadian
developed CRV-7 rocket motors. The TTCP program culminated in a vehicle known as ROBOT-5 standing
for “Rocket Boosted Target.” Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES) later initiated a program for
both 7 and 9 motor configurations and later developed ROBOT-9.
By 1984 DRES had developed a number of aerial test platforms including:
• ROBOT-9
• ROBOT-5
• TATS-102
• Twin-HULK
• R2P2
ROBOT-5 and ROBOT-9 were proven to be very effective and extremely low-cost, high-speed target drones.
Following their success, DRES began the proof-of-concept development of a winged, rocket-boosted, multistaged
target that was named Robot-X.
The Robot-X drone, designed for travel at high-subsonic speeds, was able to maintain a low altitude hold,
manoeuvre along a pre-programmed path, and have a range greater than 37 kilometres. Wind tunnel tests
were conducted in 1982 and the forward-wing, canard-configured, drone’s design was frozen.

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

There's a photo of the Robot-X at this link:

https://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/zbc79/p49267.pdf

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

You could have included the pic here:

It wasn't very interesting however.

 

[fortrena]

The following might perhaps be of interest.

Realising the importance of better simulating attacks launched by anti-ship missiles, a unit of the Research and Development division of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), the Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES), in Alberta, designed a long-range target drone equipped with an homing system – a first for that establishment. A prototype of the ROBOT-X flew around November 1986. Work continued for a few years and included a version with a jet engine. The Research and Development division of the CAF abandoned the ROBOT-X in the early 1990s.