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The BTT3 Banshee , formerly the Target Technology Banshee & Meggitt Banshee , is a British target drone developed in the 1980s for air defence systems training.
Design and development
The Banshee was developed by Target Technology Ltd. [2] The company had been specialising in lightweight engines for drones and had developed its own design in 1983.[3]
Banshee is built mostly out of composite material (Kevlar and glass-reinforced plastic) with a tailless delta wing planform. The first models used a 26 hp 342 cc Normalair-Garrett two-cylinder two-stroke driving a pusher propeller. Performance was 35 to 185 knots (65 to 343 km/h; 40 to 213 mph) with an endurance from one to three hours. Flight control is by two elevons.
Later models used Norton P73 wankel engines[4] [5]
In September 2021 the British Royal Navy trialled a jet-powered variant called Banshee Jet 80+ , an improved version of the earlier Banshee Jet 80 . The improved version has a maximum endurance of 45 minutes, a maximum airspeed of 200 m/s (720 km/h), an operating range in excess of 100 km and altitude range from 5 m to 9144 m.[6] [7]
Operational history
Banshee entered service with the British Army in the mid-1980s as an aerial target for the Short Blowpipe and Javelin shoulder-launched missiles.[8]
Banshee has been deployed in over 40 Countries.[9] It has been tested against Blowpipe , Chaparral , Crotale , Javelin , Phalanx , Rapier , Hisar (including Hisar O+ and Siper), Sea Sparrow , QRSAM , Akash SAM (including Akash-NG ) and Barak 8 SAM systems.[10]
Russo-Ukrainian War
In May 2023, the UK reportedly supplied Ukraine with Banshees which had been modified as kamikaze drones .[11] The remains of a Banshee were discovered, equipped with a 7 kg warhead, by Russians in Donetsk in February 2024.[12] [13] The drone is either a Meggitt Banshee drone or a copy of one. Jet powered, it has a 7 kg explosive warhead and a range of 100 kilometres or 62 miles.[14]
Operators
Variants
Banshee 300 - (1988)
Banshee 400 - Reconnaissance (2001)
Banshee 500 - First model to include all epoxy based composite construction
Banshee 600 - Evolution of the 500 variant
Banshee Jet 40 - Single turbine
Banshee Jet 80 - Twin turbine
Specifications Meggitt BTT-3 Banshee
Banshee top-view silhouette
Data from Meggitt
General characteristics
Crew: None
Length: 2.84 m (9 ft 4 in )
Wingspan: 2.49 m (8 ft 2 in )
Height: 0.86 m (2 ft 10 in )
Empty weight: 39 kg (85 lb )
Gross weight: 73 kg (160 lb )
Powerplant: 1 × Norton P73 Wankel rotary engine, 28 kW (38 hp )
Performance
Maximum speed: 200 km/h (120 mph, 110 kn )
Endurance: 1 hour 15 minutes
Service ceiling: 7,000 m (23,000 ft )
On Display
Meggitt Banshee target drone at the Science Museum, London (2017)
See also
Related development
References
^ New UK target RPV in pdfarchive at flightglobal.com
^ "air miles | air force | british airways | 1988 | 1940 | Flight Archive" . www.flightglobal.com . Archived from the original on 6 November 2012.
^ UK funding for rotary engine in pdfarchive at flightglobal.com
^ Newdick, Thomas (1 October 2021). "Royal Navy Is Experimenting With Launching Jet-Powered Drones From Its New Carriers" . twz.com . Retrieved 7 April 2024 .
^ "Banshee Jet 80+ Aerial Target Drone, UK" . naval-technology.com . 10 November 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2024 .
^ "1986 | 1877 | Flight Archive" . www.flightglobal.com . Archived from the original on 6 November 2012.
^ "Banshee" . Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2011 .
^ "Meggitt BTT-3 Banshee" . Retrieved 7 January 2011 .
^ "UK to provide Ukraine with long-range kamikaze drones" . Militarnyi . 15 May 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2024 .
^ "Russians discovered the remains of a kamikaze drone similar to the British Banshee" . Militarynyi . 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024 .
^ "First Sighting Of British Banshee Jet-Powered Drone In Ukraine" . Covert Shores . 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024 .
^ THOMAS NEWDICK (19 September 2024). "British Target Drones Appear To Have Been Turned Into Strike Weapons In Ukraine" . TWZ. Retrieved 20 February 2024 .
^ Ellis, Ken (2016). Wrecks & Relics (25th ed.). Crecy. p. 162. ISBN 978-191080-9037 .
^ "CNAM - Banshee 300, 3088" . www.cnam.org.uk . Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2017 .
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=QinetiQ_Banshee&oldid=1217745610 "
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