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JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY - FEBRUARY 12, 2003
Powell highlights Iraq's UAV threat
CRAIG HOYLE JDW Aviation Editor
London
US Secretary of State Colin Powell on 5 February highlighted Iraq's potential use of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) as methods of delivery for its estimated 100-500 tonnes of illegally-held chemical weapons.
In his address to foreign ministers at the UN Security Council in New York, Powell said such activities pose a clear threat; not only to Iraq's immediate neighbours, but also to other countries, including the USA, should Baghdad seek to transport such a delivery system beyond its borders.
Detailing what he described as a more than decade-long campaign to develop lethal UAV technologies, Powell said previously-catalogued moves for Saddam Hussein's regime to field L-29 trainer aircraft modified for unmanned duties had been accompanied by a bid to equip Iraqi MiG-21 fighters with the ability to disperse chemical and biological agents.
During his presentation, entitled `Iraq: Failing to Disarm', Powell showed video footage from 1991 of an Iraqi Air Force Mirage F1 using a modified 1,200 litre external fuel tank to release a simulated load of anthrax agent. He claimed that an Iraqi source suggested that four such adapted spray tanks were produced for use by unmanned MiG-21s. No evidence has been provided to prove that these systems were destroyed, said Powell.
While its attempts to modify manned aircraft for the delivery of weapons of mass destruction have been known about since the mid-1990s, Powell said "Iraq is now concentrating not on these airplanes, but on developing and testing smaller UAVs" and associated `spray devices'. Such a step would provide the Iraqi military with a more stealthy means of delivering such weapons, since a fighter-sized platform is much easier to detect than a specialised unmanned system. The latter could also offer an extended range capability.
Evidence of Iraq's covert UAV programme was acquired on 27 June 2002, when the US military tracked an automatically-piloted UAV during a flight from its Samarra East air base around 100km north of Baghdad. Powell described this air vehicle as having achieved a range of over 500km during the sortie, which saw it fly in a tight `race track' pattern. While this tactic could have been employed in an attempt to disguise the aircraft's true range capabilities, the use of such waypoints is also common practise in Western countries during trials of UAVs and cruise missile systems, due to datalink range restrictions and the limited size of test facilities.
Powell said the evidence provided by this flight test clearly contradicts Iraq's 7 December 2002 declaration to the UN that it did not possess UAVs with a range capability greater than 80km. Such a capability, he added, also contravenes the 150km-range limit established for such a system under UN guidelines. It would also go beyond the voluntary Missile Technology Control Regime framework, which classifies UAV platforms in the same category as cruise missiles. Iraq is not, however, a signatory to this agreement.
FSPF (?) L-29
Type
Attack UAV.
Development
First public demonstration of Iraqi interest in UAVs was given at a military exhibition in Baghdad in April/May 1989, when three types named Al Yamama, Sarab-3 and Shaheen were shown. Described in contemporary editions of Jane's Battlefield Surveillance Systems, all were relatively simple, low-powered designs, with gross weights in the range 70 to 115 kg (154 to 253 lb) and payload capacity of around 25 kg (55 lb). The Sarab appeared to be an unlicensed copy of the Meggitt Banshee aerial target (which see), a brochure even being illustrated with that company's photographs.
Nothing further has been heard of these UAVs since that time but, in late 1997, sources in the Iraqi National Congress claimed that Iraq had droned a single-engined Polish M-18 Dromader agricultural aircraft (standard payload 1,050 kg; 2,315 lb) to deliver chemical and biological (CB) agents or to undertake reconnaissance, artillery spotting and propaganda missions. Ability to launch short-range IR-guided missiles from this 'BZM 18' aircraft was also said to be under development. Iraq has never been an officially acknowledged customer for the M-18, and Polish sources have discounted the probability of it being a viable choice for conversion to an offensive UAV; however, it may have fulfilled a role in developing a delivery system for CB materials.
Evidence of a more serious interest in this direction was offered during Operation Desert Fox in December 1998, when one of the installations destroyed by RAF Tornados was a hangar at Talil airbase said to have housed up to a dozen Czech L-29 Delfin jet trainers converted for unmanned operation. Releasing a photograph of one of these aircraft on 19 December, the UK Secretary of State for Defence stated, "We suspect Saddam (Hussein) intended to deploy these drones...as a direct threat to his neighbours." The L-29s, remnants of a large batch acquired by Iraq in the late 1960s but later replaced in the training role by L-39s, have apparently been adapted to carry CB agents (anthrax or similar) in their two underwing fuel tanks, which presumably would be fitted with atomisers to disperse the chemical.
During 2000, according to a CIA report to the US Congress in early 2001, the droned L-29 was believed to have continued to be flown for operator training and, possibly, for systems development purposes. In September 2002, according to Jane's sources, US intelligence agencies still regarded Iraq's unmanned L-29s as a viable WMD (weapons of mass destruction) threat. Iraq is also known to have turbojets under development for UAV applications (see Tollue entry in Power Plants section).
Airframe
As standard Aero L-29 (see Jane's Aircraft Upgrades for description).
Mission payloads
See under Development above.
Guidance and control
No details known.
Launch
Conventional runway take-off.
Recovery
Conventional runway landing.
Customers
Iraqi Air Force.
Operational status
Development and/or service.
Specifications
(Standard L-29)
Prime contractor
Iraqi Military Production Authority (FSPF)
Baghdad (unconfirmed).
Олег Грановский написал(а):Проясните, пожалуйста - что за БЧ были найдены инспекторами?Аналогия: в 1991г много было разговоров, что у Ирака нет химических БЧ к Скадам, ибо создать их - довольно сложная задача. А такие БЧ были найдены инспекторами ООН.
Если я правильно помню(с месяц назад по ТВ) показывали что-то. Но причем тут Скады? На экране были пустые болванки калибром примерно, как к Граду РС. У нас примерно такие применялись с агитационными снарядами - листовки кидали. Подобные также для дистанционного минирования - "лепестками" , например.Но эти уже вроде "Ураганами" кидались. В конце концов это может быть просто муляж, или учебный снаряд. Или "неконвенциональные" боеприпасы "обьемного взрыва".
Если б БЧ Скада это была - американцы не блеяли бы беспомощно в ООН, а давно бы уже начали с помпой. А то жалко на них смотреть. А и дороги назад им уже нет практически.
Кстати, я не увидел ни в докладе Пауэлла, ни в цитируемых Вами сообщениях точных данных о дальности L-29(39) (госсек как-то невнятно говорит про 500 км... о какой машине речь?). Не подскажете? Мой консультант не сумел ответить на этот вопрос, сраведливо заметив лишь, что раз Пауэлл упомянул эти UAVs в своем докладе СБ ООН, то наверняка > 150 км. Хотелось бы узнать какова не только расчетная дальность, но и испытанная (долетел и что-то-там распылил).
И вообще, эта тягомотина-бредятина с иракским ОМП уже достала. Решили бомбить - нефиг рассусоливать, пробирки с мелом можно потом по ходу разбросать!
Эта музыка будет вечной...(с) Пока нефть существует...
Что за штука?
Что за штука?
Это БПЛА, вроде израильского "Скаута" или американского "Шадоу-200" с толкающим поршневым двигателем.
Обычно используется для разведки поля боя в реальном масштабе времени с использованием ТВ-камеры (ночью - FLIR), а также для подсветки оружия с лазерным полуактивным наведением, РЭБ и т.п.
В принципе можно нагрузить на него неконвенциональное оружие, правда масса полезной нагрузки будет очень небольшая (у "Скаут", например, 38 кг; дальность действия у него, правда, всего 100 км).
Описания различных БПЛА:
http://www.airwar.ru/bpla.html