CAC Fox
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The CAC Fox is a small UAV developed in France for use as a reconnaissance aircraft and for electronic warfare. About a thousand have been sold in a number of variants, with generally similar appearance and specifications.
The Fox-TX can carry a variety of payloads for radar or radio communications jamming; radar identification and location; communications intercept; or, when fitted with a warhead and a radar-homing seeker, anti-radar attack. The Fox-TX can also carry two small underwing stores.
Variants
- Fox-AT1 - Short range battlefield reconnaissance variant. The Fox-AT1 has a shorter wingspan of {{convert|3.6|m|ftin|abbr=off}}; a deeper fuselage; and a sensor payload of {{convert|15|kg|lb|abbr=off}}, consisting of day or night imaging systems, chemical sensors, or customer-specified payload. Unlike the Fox-TX, the Fox-AT1 has a skid to permit belly landings. It can carry four small underwing stores. Endurance is only an hour and a half. French forces have used the Fox-AT1 for tactical reconnaissance in the Balkans.
- Fox-AT2 - Long range battlefield reconnaissance variant. The Fox-AT2 looks much like the Fox-AT1, but has the wider 4-meter wingspan. It can carry a heavier sensor payload of {{convert|30|kg|lb|abbr=off}}, but only two wings stores, and uses a long-range radio communications link.
- Fox-TS1 - Expendable target, with the short 3.6 meter wingspan. It can carry chaff, flares, radar enhancement devices, and other target gear.
Specifications (Fox-TX)
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|empty weight kg=73
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|gross weight kg=135
|gross weight lb=298
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|max speed kmh=180
|max speed mph=110
|endurance=5 hours|ceiling m=3,000
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References
- [http://www.janes.com/extract/idr95/idr00490.html Jane's International Defence Review]
This article contains material that originally came from the web article {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110902194407/http://www.vectorsite.net/twuav.html Unmanned Aerial Vehicles]}} by Greg Goebel, which exists in the Public Domain.
Category:1990s French military reconnaissance aircraft