The Aeronautics Defense Dominator is an Israeli
Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance
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unmanned aerial vehicle
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Aeronautics Defense Systems
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. It is based on the
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Diamond DA42 Twin Star
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passenger aircraft. Dominator UAV executes intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations.
Operational history
The aircraft made its first test flight in July 2009. The unmanned aircraft has an endurance of 28 hours with a payload and flies at 75-190 knots (140–350 km/h) to a maximum altitude of .
Operators
* — 2 Dominator XPs
* - Ordered in August 2018
* - 1 Dominator 2, being used to monitor borders.
Aeronautics planned second manned/unmanned conversion
''Flightglobal''. (13 October 2010)
Specifications
See also
References
External links
Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd.
2000s Israeli military reconnaissance aircraft
Unmanned military aircraft of Israel
Medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles
Dominator
Low-wing aircraft
Diesel-engined aircraft
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