IAI Searcher

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Searcher
IAI-Searcher1.jpg
IAI Searcher in Tel Nof Airbase, Israel
Role Reconnaissance UAV
National origin Israel
Manufacturer IAI
Introduction • Searcher 1 - 1992[1]

• Searcher 2 - 1998[1]

The IAI Searcher (also known by the Hebrew name מרומית Meyromit - "Marsh tern",[2] or officially in Israel as the חוגלה Hugla - "Alectoris") is a reconnaissance UAV developed in Israel in the 1980s. In the following decade, it replaced the IMI Mastiff and IAI Scout UAVs then in service with the Israeli Army.

Design[]

The Searcher MK-II (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) passes through the Rajpath during the 58th Republic Day Parade - 2007, in New Delhi on January 26, 2007

The Searcher looks almost identical to the Scout and Pioneer, but is in fact scaled up and is well over twice the size of the Scout. The Searcher is powered by a 35 kW (47 hp) piston engine. The new design features updated avionics and sensor systems with greater flight endurance as well as increased redundancy for improved survivability. In addition to Israel, the system had been exported and is currently in use by Russia, India, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Singapore,[3] Thailand and Turkey.[4]

Operational deployment[]

More than 100 Searcher IIs are being operated by the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy.

It took part in the large-scale Russian-Belarussian exercise Zapad in September 2021.[5]

Crashes[]

10 June 2002 – Searcher Mark-II, operated by Indian Air Force for reconnaissance, was shot down by a Pakistan Air Force F-16B using AIM-9L Sidewinder at an altitude of 13,000 ft, after it was spotted by the mobile observation units.[6]

11 July 2018 – A Russian "Forpost" UAV was found on July 12 in a field close to the village of Barqah, about 12 kilometres far from the Israeli side of the Golan heights (Syria) but none among the belligerents claimed the shot down nor the loss.[7][8]

On 11 August 2021, a Searcher drone of Indian Air Force crashed in Punjab.

Operators[]

A Republic of Singapore Air Force's IAI Searcher II at Henry Post Army Airfield (Fort Sill, Oklahoma).
Russian Forpost.

Specifications[]

The IAI Searcher II

Searcher II MK3[]

Data from IAI Searcher II MK3[21]

General characteristics

  • Crew: Unmanned
  • Capacity: 68 kg (150 lb) payload
  • Length: 5.85 m (19 ft 2 in)
  • Wingspan: 8.55 m (28 ft 0 in)
  • Height: 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in)
  • Gross weight: 450 kg (992 lb)
  • Payload:120 kg (260 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Limbach L 550 , 35 kW (47 hp)
  • Propellers: Born Propeller 120cm 3 blade adjustable pitch

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 201 km/h (125 mph, 110 kn)
  • Range: 350 km (220 mi, 190 nmi)
  • Endurance: 20 hours
  • Service ceiling: 6,100 m (21,000 ft)
  • Loiter speed:110 to 150 km/h; 69 to 92 mph (60 to 80 kn)

See also[]

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

References[]

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This article contains material that originally came from the web article Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Greg Goebel, which exists in the Public Domain.

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