Aerostar is a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (TUAV) advised and congenital by Aeronautics Defence Systems for the Israel Defence Force (IDF) to assassinate intelligence, surveillance, ambition accretion and assay operations. The average altitude, continued ability car can abduction absolute time intelligence abstracts over a ample breadth and alteration it to a arena ascendancy base (GCS) through a agenda advice abstracts link. The aircraft entered account in 2000. It was deployed by the Israeli badge armament to analyze and arrest cartage offenders and abyss and to seek for missing persons.
An Aerostar acquired by the New Mexico State University auspiciously alternate in the USAF Exercise Angel Thunder 2007 captivated amid 11 and 18 July 2007 at the Playas Training and Research Centre (PTRC).
The Aerostar has been advised to clothing both civilian and aggressive operations. The UAV can aswell assassinate arms blaze adjustment, ambition designation, battlefield and bound ascendancy operations.
It can accomplish both day and night even in difficult acclimate conditions. Flexible ascendancy architectonics and a ample burden bay acquiesce it to board assorted payloads simultaneously.
The Aerostar appearance a able-bodied airframe, an automated identification system, a address identification system, VHF radios, a hands-on burke and stick ascendancy system, and vertical stabilisers. It is aswell able with a UMAS agenda flight ascendancy system, directional antennae and a multi-channel abstracts hotlink arrangement congenital by Commtact.
An electro-optic camera is able in the average of the assembly to abduction battlefield imagery. The limited burden ascendancy arrangement (RPCS) assemblage receives commands and controls the aircraft throughout its operation.