TEST RANGE EQUIPMENT
Dan Aerial Target System
Mission
Composition
The Dan drone aircraft is designed to train pilots and crews of air defence missile and artillery systems in firing air-to-air/su rface-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 maximising the similarity of crews’ training to real combat environment.
The Dan target drone mounts the following equipment: • flight control system; • telemetry equipment; • missile miss distance measuring equipment.
Launch weight, kg Max airspeed, km/h Operational altitude range, m Flight endurance, min Engine type x thrust, kgf Dimensions, m: length height wing span
10 0
395 710 50 – 9,000 40 MD-120 turbojet x 120 4.6 0.815 2.683
The following systems are used for flight servicing: • general-purpos e ground equipment: launcher vehicle, loader/trans porter vehicle, ground automated testing system, sustainer starter, auxiliary equipment set; • all-round sur veillance radar, trajectory measuring radar, radio control station.