Aérospatiale C.22 is a subsonic target drone developed and manufactured by Aérospatiale since 1980,[1] and used in testing the MBDA Aster missile. It is powered by a Microturbo TRI 60-02.[2]
To ensure the tests of the Centre d'Essais de Landes in 1995, 74 targets including twenty C22, eleven Nord Aviation CT20 and twenty-seven Fox, were launched.[3] It was last used in France in 2014.[4] It is equipped with a towed target for the training of anti-aircraft gun crews and ground-to-air missile batteries.[5]
Specifications edit
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982–83[6]
General characteristics
- Crew: None
- Length: 5.25 m (17 ft 3 in)
- Wingspan: 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in)
- Height: 1.15 m (3 ft 9 in)
- Empty weight: 255 kg (562 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 630 kg (1,389 lb) (maximum launching weight)
- Fuel capacity: 235 L (52 imp gal; 62 US gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × Microturbo TRI 60-2 turbojet, 3.4 kN (760 lbf) thrust
- Powerplant: 2 × jettisonable solid-fuel booster rockets , 28.3 kN (6,400 lbf) thrust each
Performance
- Maximum speed: Mach <0.95
- Endurance: 2 hr 30 min at 12,000 m (39,000 ft)
- Service ceiling: 14,000 m (46,000 ft)
- Time to altitude: 12,000 metres (39,000 ft) in less than 6 min
References edit
- ^ "Aérospatiale C.22 - Drone cible - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance.com. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ^ Rideau, Jean-Francois; Guyader, Gilles; Cloarec, Alain (2008). "MICROTURBO Families of Turbojet Engine for Missiles and Uav's from the TR60 to the New Bypass Turbojet Engine Generation". 44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit. doi:10.2514/6.2008-4590. ISBN 978-1-60086-992-1.
- ^ COMAERO. Un demi siècle d aéronautique en France. Un demi-siècle d aéronautique en France. Centres et moyens d essais (II) p. 21
- ^ "Aerospatiale C 22". Le Comptoir de l'Aviation (in French). Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ "Aérospatiale Matra" (Microsoft Word (DOC)). Defense & Aerospace Companies - Volume II. September 2001. Retrieved 2010-05-19.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Taylor 1982, pp. 672–673.
- Taylor, John W. R., ed. (1982). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982–83. London: Jane's Yearbooks. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2.
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