![]() ![]() These Thales-built missiles are 1.3 m long, weigh just 13 kg and can be launched from a variety of tactical platforms on land, sea or in the air, with a first-stage motor allowing the missile to emerge from its launch tube without recoil and travel to a safe distance before the second-stage ignites. The UAV has a fuselage that is about 2.3 m long, into which are mounted two launch tubes for LMMs. (Photo: Flyby Technology)Įlectrically powered, the Jackal can take off, hover and land vertically using four sets of twin contra-rotating propellers, but it also has a 5 m wingspan and four wing-mounted ducted-fan motors for forward flight. The trial, which actually took place in October 2022 but was only publicly revealed on 17 April 2023, was sponsored by the Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) Rapid Capabilities Office, while the Jackal was designed and developed by UK-based Flyby Technology, with Turkish partners FlyBVLOS Technology and Maxwell Innovations providing design engineering and prototyping expertise and Thales providing the LMMs.Īccording to Thales, within a demanding six-week window this team was “able to build two operational Jackal aircraft and successfully fire two LMMs in an impressive demonstration of agile teamwork”.įlyby Technology’s Jackal VTOL UAV firing a Thales Lightweight Multirole Missile during trials in October 2022. ![]() An innovative new vertical take-off-and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle called the Jackal has successfully conducted firing trials with Thales Lightweight Multirole Missiles (LMMs).
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