BAE Herti UAV plans revealed

Posted on: Jul. 18th, 2006 || Source: flightglobal.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

BAE Systems is exploring potential development of a catapult-launched version of its Herti tactical unmanned air vehicle.

Fit checks were carried out at the end of June at BAE's Warton facility in northern England using the company's new Rotax-powered version of Herti - which will be displayed at next week's Farnborough air show - and a Robonic pneumatic launcher.

No launches have been made, but BAE and Robonic have jointly developed and "thrown" a representative dummy mass in a series of tests carried out in Finland in late 2005.

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