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Discuss UAV battery during the '60s? at the Military History and Militaria forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; Does anybody know which Royal Artillery battery operated the SD 1 drones that came into ...
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03-02-2012, 22:01 #1Senior Member
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UAV battery during the '60s?
Does anybody know which Royal Artillery battery operated the SD 1 drones that came into service during the 1960s?
Who needs letters after your name when you have numbers before it.
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03-02-2012, 23:33 #2Senior Member
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57 (Bhurtpore) Battery accordign to the potted history of 94 Locating Regiment The history of 94 Locating Regiment R.A. Thoiugh it does not say what drones they were using before 1964
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04-02-2012, 10:46 #4Senior Member
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Thanks for the link. I believe drones first came into service in the mid 60's so there wouldn't have been any before 1964 making 57 Battery probably the first to have them. They still operate drones today (though obviously a different type) as part of 32 Regt.
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04-02-2012, 21:01 #5Senior Member
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The Navy actually developed a UAV in the 1930s called the Queen Bee - not sure if this is where we get the term "drone" from...
The one you are looking for however was the MQM 57 Falconer drone made by Northrop, also known as the AN/USD 1 ..
Northrop MQM-57 Falconer
This was replaced in the 70s by the AN/USD 501 Midge drone built by Canadair...
never used in anger, however the triple lens camera was mounted in the DH Beaver and used in NI by the RIC flights. Took three photos simulatiously, one vertical and two low oblique...Charisma: The ability to convince without the use of Logic.
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05-02-2012, 03:57 #6Senior Member
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Some years ago there was an article in the RA Journal about the introduction of SD1
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05-02-2012, 15:26 #7Senior Member
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Originally Posted by HE117
Sorry but who where the RIC?Who needs letters after your name when you have numbers before it.
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They were salvo firing them during Granby, one of my mates was an IA with the Bty! There was one dit of a Bedouin who came in from the desert to complain about one of mr Saddam's SCUDs that had landed on his tent... When EOD went to investigate, they found a Midge Drone... Originally Posted by HE117
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05-02-2012, 16:14 #9Senior Member
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(Wah shield on) Reconnaissance Intelligence Cell, not Royal Irish Constabulary... Originally Posted by naked_mole_rat
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05-02-2012, 16:31 #10Senior Member
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Pedantic, but I think it was Centre rather than Cell. I seem to remember the Midge was quite a delicate load - no wonder they crashed after the Truckies had thrown them on and off the wagons. Originally Posted by Manod Bach
(Wah shield on) Reconnaissance Intelligence Cell, not Royal Irish Constabulary... (Wah shield off)The stopped clock of The Belfast Telegraph seems to indicate the
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Of the explosion - or was that last week's? Difficult to keep
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Everything's a bit askew, like the twisted pickets of the
security gate, the wreaths,
That approximate the spot where I'm told the night patrol
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