RQ-11 Raven UAV Drone - Hand Thrown Launch & Break-apart Landing. 

If you read the instructions you would understand why it breaks apart when it lands, those ravens are actually great drones

Some clarification of what's going on here... The price of this system is two-fold. One is that a single kit of this system contains not one, but two airframes, as well as all of its control components and optics. And two, is that the vast majority of the costs go into the optics themselves. You cannot hide from these things. Their thermal optics are still very effective, and they can zoom in very far. The newer versions of their optics are gimballed to allow the operator to pan their camera while in flight. The avionics system inside of this drone can maintain flight automatically while the operator utilizes the optics to spot things. The setup of the entire system (when done by an experience detachment) can take anywhere between 10-15 minutes. What is shown here is a course of troops being trained on the system, and thus things are going to be slow as they learn the intricacies of the system. Putting these things together is not difficult, and once you've practiced a bunch (especially in the dark), it becomes an extremely simple process. The Raven is intentionally designed to break apart for landing. There are a few benefits to that. The big one being speed. It is much simpler to land it directly in front of the detachment. The components that break apart are generally not far from the airframe and collecting them all is quite simple. The kit also comes with a radio locator in case it goes down outside of visual sight, so they can still easily locate the Raven. They simple reassemble airframe, do a quick pre-flight, and launch the drone again. It is compact when disassembled, and it only weight 5 lbs. So this thing is very easy to pack around on operation. The quick setup time allows this drone to be quickly provide situational awareness to the troops on the ground. In my time in the field, whenever we've deployed these birds, we see instant results of enemy positions and call in for artillery to take care of them using the system's laser. There are tools onboard the Raven that allow for easy corrections to be made for artillery to very quickly zero in on their target and get accurate rounds down range. For those bashing this system and comparing it to civilian RC planes, you really don't know what you're talking about and you are making an ass of yourself.

Remember, to get a UAS certified for govt or military spec, is a very expensive proposition. This system is built to smash apart on landing, and go back together in a few minutes, carbon fibre, Kevlar, encrypted comms. But admittedly yes this tech is over 5 years old.

About the landing, it is designed to land by stall and disasemble on impact. Much quicker than trying to land it like a conventional plane.

I fly these for the army and it's easier then what that video showed it to be.

@BringTheRuckusCrew it's designed to do that. Breaking to pieces dampens the impact, and disassembling itself also helps the crew to pack it back together and gtfo fast if needed, but mainly it's to dampen the impact.

bf4 ramming machine

nice landing

It's just like the Cox PT-19 U-Control trainer we used to fly as kids - the wing was held on with a rubberband to protect it during crashes.

4:22 YESSS!!

The only reason why I search this up because my dad used to fly drones in the army

HobbyKing Special and a can of gray primer paint,,,,viola! Is the landing breaking apart feature to lessen the learning curve of landing it properly or what?

that looks like and APC-E prop, aha

200 of these UAV are ordered by Indian army

This is the standard landing for the the Raven in theatre. It is meant to absorb the landing impact by coming apart. It goes back together easy enough.

4:13 Hunter killer drone inbound

Battlefield 4 brought me here.

too long and too many preparation...

Greaaat!!!!!+++:))))

YAAASSSS!

That thing is definitely not going to sneak up on anyone.

What is that sound coming from the computer?

Thats still quite an advanced drone, could be a lot simpler

So many of you pretend to be an RC expert, but you guys really have no idea what it takes to design one for MILITARY. These things should withstand nonstop abuse and should still deliver what it should for many month in all kinds of bad environments, not to mention bad pilot skill...the breakaway landing is an excellent design. Also note the ground support and communication equipment. Yes, the thing probably cost quite a lot more than what it could have really cost, but enough with HobbyKing...heh.

Charlie Foxtrot... 🤣🙈👏

4:22 yeshhh

Nice!!!!!+++:))))

Friendly uav overhead

Linear? Wow...

Cool!!!!!+++:))))

welcome to silk road rush

Мы такой самолёт ещё в 89 году на авиамодельном кружке делали. Летал хорошо. Бедные американские военные, на ноутбук защиту от солнечного света из коробки сделали

nice landing 5:50

I bet these things cost more than my car. I swear if you slap the word Military on any piece of equipment it increases it's value by 500%

Price?

I need one, where can I get one lol

Hey my old job fuck i miss that old peice of plastic tho i didn't have as many people when i used it must be for the showing of it usually the squad sits up a defensive prim id check and double check systems and equipment to run it then i had a squad mate hold and id throttle up and he would launch it also.... we never crashed ours that was very frowned upon in my unit id bring it to a glide and have a squad mate usually the same guy would run along with it and catch it then we would break it down and box it then move out... but yeah fuck i miss that job it was fun

The scorestreaks are real lmao

a million thumbs up for the troops..but not on that raven..battery HOG!

Can it roadkill people?

u'd better make RC fly bomb with camera, so that pin point enemy location precisely and runto it to bomb

"Avião" dos Irmãos Wright

That piece of shit cost, $35,000? I seen people make better out of insulating foam from the hardware store.

Haha. Too funny. We civilians flying circles around these guys. I can see them being mortared in the time it takes to throw one into the air, and for $35,000 its landing kinda hard.

The call of duty emp drone

The price tag includes the whole system (UAS, not just just the UAV)

What a shame ..it fell down at the end

alredy im told hir all that out tha help insaid washinton coz we dont hav gremant with washinton to help his cup weith wat in all protast caming

It looks like a MultiPlex Easy Star. Lol You can do exactly what this does for under 1000 now with the same range and flight time.

LMAO, they should hire me for this stuff. they have no idea what they're doing... :)

Hunter Killer inbound

Hey I have one of these! It cost me 45 dollars on bangood 😂

Isn’t that a emp drone I don’t think that’s a UAV

American motor, still kept going. Chinese or Japanese would have died of heart attack before the crash.

damn shattered to pieces

RQLGB

SUAV

They bought it from H*bbyKing... LOL

Just fkn throw it sarnt damn y’all are just wingin it at this point

Private hair lol

so you need a team to fly that bird? looks harder then i thought...

How much of a beating can these things take. Surely landing it by intentionally smashing it into the ground aint helping its longevity

But bloked all bag washinton

in a combat situation there won't be any time to play with toys

The landing is not good for the prop. It needs to balance again are changed every time if it hits the ground

For that closed all widows contact washinton we onle we watsh hir me sem like u how tha control hir onle me for that lesn onle to me for we hav fix abut wat tha helcoptar hav in tha army

Can I roadkill noobs with this? :D

Huh just like my marriage......

Should of bought a DJI Mavic Pro.

Very smooth landing. Reminds me of 9/11

Bloked all bag amerca and u can onle do wat in ur bag

Naw u onle stay and dont tok onle watsh if i need u i cam to u

35k to build????.. motor like 150 bucks,, batteries like 200 or so good ones.... uva's fuselage 20 bucks..... servos 40 bucks...... wiring 2 dollars...... cameras and the rc module... 200-300 bucks.. im not even close to 35k and with with less than 1 k i could build a better uav than this..

Suav

All I can say is if I was their only uav pilot I would win wars for these poor basterds. The time it takes them to pre-launch fly and with that landing :/. I think the Americans need to re-evaluate their skills and training.

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and They are protecting USA :P Polish army lost control on their drone hahaha and they was searching for it for three days :P braking apart on landing is ridiculous :)

your tax dollars hard at work. they have no clue what their doing! clasic

LMFAO it's a POS

Turkish bayraktar is cheaper and better

Bad landing... :)

Nothing instructional or helpful about this video