The Royal Thai Navy Demonstrates the MARCUS-B VTOL UAV During Annual Naval Training

09 Maret 2022

MARCUS-B VTOL UAV (photos : Battlefield Defense)

The opening ceremony of the annual Naval Training 2022 On March 3, 2012, Admiral Somprasong Nilasai, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Navy Visited the weapons exhibits of agencies under the Royal Thai Navy.

In the Division of Naval Research and Development Office, Royal Thai Navy Unmanned aerial vehicle for maritime reconnaissance type 2 MARCUS-B(Maritime Aerial Reconnaissance Craft Unmanned System-Type B) which is a vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle (VTOL UAV: ​​Vertical Take-Off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) that has been demonstrated to the Royal Thai Navy Commander, who has previously tested operations on a helicopter carrier HTMS Chakri Naruebet has gone.

MARCUS-B is a second-generation system that is a successor to the first. Unmanned aerial vehicle for maritime reconnaissance type 1 Smaller MARCUS-A(Maritime Aerial Reconnaissance Craft Unmanned System-Type A) by NSTDA developed in collaboration with the Thai private sector, namely SDT Composites, an air structure designer and manufacturer, and Pims Technologies, a developer of flight and communications control systems which is all designed, developed and built in Thailand.

Designated as a reconnaissance aircraft, the development of the MARCUS-B VTOL UAV will focus on its use as a surface naval air reconnaissance system HMS Chakri Naruebet and the ship's amphibious landing HTMS Angthong which the payload in addition to the detection device such as weapons is also a matter of the future.

MARCUS-A UAV (photos : Battlefield Defense)

The Navy's newest RQ-21 Blackjack unmanned aerial vehicle

At the opening ceremony of the Royal Navy Training Year 2022, Naval Aviation Division The Royal Thai Navy has also exhibited its unmanned aerial vehicle systems, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle to spot a target Aeronautics Orbiter 3B with 6 units.

It is also the first time the Boeing Insitu RQ-21 Blackjack unmanned aerial vehicle was launched, which the United States has given to the Royal Thai Navy as part of its military assistance to friendly countries, with delivery around the end of the year 2021.

RQ-21 Blackjack UAV (photo : Battlefield Defense)

Even without marking and serial number it is understood that the RQ-21 Blackjack UAS will be stationed at the 104 Squadron, Wing 1, Naval Aviation Division (104 Air Squadron, Wing 1, RTNAD), which is a UAV squadron, together with the Orbiter 3B UAS that is the system that was sent to fly with the same rail.

(AAG)