HCUAV

Hellenic Civil Unmanned Air Vehicle
Role	Surveillance UAV
National origin	Greece
Manufacturer	LRA, IDE, MLS, CSL, LFMT, Spacesonic
First flight	May 2015
Status	Under Development
Program cost	€2 million

The HCUAV (full name Hellenic Civil Unmanned Air Vehicle) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by several Greek companies. Its development started in 2013 and the HCUAV consortium consists of 6 partners, 3 University Research Groups (LFMT, CSL, LRA) and 3 SMEs (MLS Multimedia, Spacesonic Ltd, Intracom Defense Electronics) and is coordinated by the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics & Turbomachinery (LFMT) of the Dept. of Mech. Eng. of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It will have a length of 4.5 meters and a wingspan of 6 meters and will weight 190 kg. It will fly at a height of 3 km for 9 hours without refueling.

Specifications

Performance

Maximum speed: 220 km/h

Range: 200 km/h

References

http://www.hcuav.gr/index.php/en/ http://www.hcuav.gr/attachments/article/73/RLN_1105_043_CMYK.pdf

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