DAN Aerial Target System

Aerial Target System

Mission

The Dan drone aircraft is designed to train pilots and crews of air defence missile and artillery systems in firing air-to-air/surface-toair missile and artillery weapons.

The Dan target is reusable. It takes off from its ground-based launcher with the assistance of the powder booster and lands by parachute. The target can fly in any season by day and night, either autonomously (according to a preset programme) or under remote control of the ground operator.

Dan is a low-observable highly manouevrable target drone maximisingthe similarity of crews’ training to real combat environment. Composition

The Dan target drone mounts the following equipment: • flight control system; • telemetryequipment; • missile miss distance measuring equipment.

The following systems are used for flight servicing: • general-purpose ground equipment: launcher vehicle, loader/transporter vehicle, ground automated testing system, sustainer starter, auxiliary equipment set; • all-round surveillance radar, trajectory measuring radar, radio control station.

Launchweight, kg Max airspeed, km/h Operational altitude range, m Flight endurance, min

395 710 50 – 9,000 40 Enginetype x thrust, kgf MD-120turbojet x 120 Dimensions,m: length height wing span 4.6 0.815 2.683