AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven Training – Hand-Launched UAV

AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven Training – Hand-Launched UAVVideo by 1st Lt. Kayla Christopher 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

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Payloads: Dual Forward and Side-Look EO Camera Nose, Electronic Pan-tilt-zoom with Stabilization, Forward and Side-Look IR Camera Nose (6.5 oz payloads)

Range: 10 km

Endurance: 60-90 minutes

Speed: 32-81 km/h, 17-44 knots

Operating Altitude (Typ.): 100-500 ft (30-152 m) AGL, 14,000 ft MSL max launch altitude

Wing Span: 4.5 ft (1.4 m)

Length: 3.0 ft (0.9 m)

Weight: 4.2 lbs (1.9 kg)

Hand-Launched, Deep Stall Landing

Soldiers from the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oklahoma Army National Guard mentor Ukrainians conducting reconnaissance and observing fires with a RQ-11 Raven unmanned aerial vehicle during a combined-arms battalion live-fire exercise held at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center located on the International Peacekeeping and Security Center near Yavoriv, Ukraine on March 29, 2017. The Oklahoma Guardsmen are deployed in support of Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine, a mission geared towards training and professionalizing the Ukrainian army and developing Ukrainian combat training center staff.