The Yarará project is the first

unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controller ...

(UAV) programme in South America to be produced in series and for export. The system is developed by

Nostromo Defensa Nostromo Defensa is a defense contractor based in Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, Argentina. It has been working since 2006 in developing unmanned aerial vehicles for military and non-military use. The company's CEO is Marcelo Martínez. The Yarar� ...

for surveillance, border patrol and reconnaissance. It was unveiled at the

Argentine Air Force "Argentine Wings" , mascot = , anniversaries = 10 August (anniversary) 1 May (Baptism of fire during the Falklands War) , equipment = 139 aircraft , equipment_label = , battles = * Operation Independence * Operation Soberanía * Falklan ...

Air Show (''Fuerza Aérea Argentina'', FAA) on 10 August 2006. The manufacturer says it has been produced in small series for export to an unidentified government customer in the United States.

Design

The vehicle was named after the yarará, a

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

n venomous snake. The Yarará was developed by Nostromo Defensa under contracts from the

US Southern Command The United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), located in Doral, Florida in Greater Miami, is one of the eleven unified combatant commands in the United States Department of Defense. It is responsible for providing contingency planning, op ...

with a system comprising three aircraft delivered in June 2006. Evolution of the design has seen an increase in the width of the undercarriage footprint to support rough field landings, while a Zenoah 6.5 hp engine is an option. The first powerplant is a Modellmotoren 3W 5.5 hp two stroke system. The current Yarará is powered by a single Sonic 35

multifuel Multifuel, sometimes spelled multi-fuel, is any type of engine, boiler, or heater or other fuel-burning device which is designed to burn multiple types of fuels in its operation. One common application of multifuel technology is in military sett ...

air-cooled wankel rotary engine which produces 5.9KW of output power. It is fitted with a three-bladed

propeller A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon ...

at the rear of the fuselage section raised on an engine pylon with integral fuel tank. This engine is designed and built by British company Cubewano. It is the first kerosene-powered (heavy fuel)

rotary engine The rotary engine is an early type of internal combustion engine, usually designed with an odd number of cylinders per row in a radial configuration. The engine's crankshaft remained stationary in operation, while the entire crankcase and i ...

flown on a UAV that can use JP8 as fuel. It was first flown in this configuration in August 2009. The

Wankel engine The Wankel engine (, ) is a type of internal combustion engine using an Eccentric (mechanism), eccentric rotary combustion engine, rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion. It was invented by German engineer Felix Wankel, and desi ...

has electronic injection.

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Shephard Group

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