Jordan Falcon

History of the Jordanian Falcon

The light unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aboard the Jordan Falcon is currently in development, led by the King Abdullah Design and Development Authority and Jordan Aerospace Industries. The effort is a homegrown drone joint venture to expand the tactical reach of military and security forces to modernize the armed forces and keep pace with Western powers.

The Falcon is an unarmed system whose primary mission is reconnaissance, surveillance, and target designation/tracking, and is therefore "armed" with mission equipment suitable for that role (up to 13 lb payload).

Externally, the Jordan Falcon is designed as a light aircraft with a fuselage, main wingspan and tail. The "cockpit" is submerged in a central pod-like arrangement with straight-sided wings overhead. The tips of the wings are cut off. The tail consists of a double cantilever structure with a connected span at the tail, and a horizontal tail appears as two inwardly sloping vertical tail surfaces connected at their ends.

Propulsion is provided by an internal engine located at the rear of the fuselage, which drives the twin-bladed propeller assembly in a "thrust" configuration. The chassis consists of four fixed outriggers.

Like other such systems, the Falcon has a noise-cancelling 200cc two-stroke internal combustion engine and satellite-based navigation. The system is primarily controlled by ground operators and has a range of up to 450 kilometers (280 miles), but waypoint navigation can be autonomous if desired. The data link system routes the video back to the receiver in real-time format. The drone's runtime is about four hours.

Top speed is 110 mph.

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