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The Teledyne Ryan Model 410 was a surveillance UAV designed in the United States in the late 1980s.
[Taylor 1989, p.946]["Teledyne's new RPV starts tests" 1987, p.14] In configuration, it was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with twin tails carried on booms and linked by a common horizontal stabilizer.
[''Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1987–88'', p.982] The engine was mounted pusher-fashion at the rear of the fuselage, between the booms. The nosewheel of the tricycle undercarriage was retractable.
Construction throughout was of composite materials.
In 1993, the Model 410 was submitted to the
UAV Joint Projects Office
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in response to a
RFP for a
Tier II system.
["Rivals launch long-range UAV bids" 1987, p.15] In January 1994, the contract was awarded to
General Atomics
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for what would eventually become the
RQ-1 Predator
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.
[Ripley 2002]
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1980s United States military reconnaissance aircraft
Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States
Ryan aircraft
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