The Ryan Firebee is a series of target drones developed by the Ryan Aeronautical Company beginning in 1951. It was one of the first jet-propelled drones...

production aircraft was the Ryan Firebee line of unmanned drones used as target drones and unmanned air vehicles. In 1922, T.C. Ryan founded a flying service...

psychological warfare. The Ryan drones were designed without landing gear for simplicity and to save weight. Like its Firebee predecessor, the Model 147...

of the C-130 Hercules modified for drone control. It can carry four Ryan Firebee drones underneath its wings. Since World War I, many nations' air forces...

28-pound (13 kg) load. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel used unarmed U.S. Ryan Firebee target drones to spur Egypt into firing its entire arsenal of anti-aircraft...

F-15 RPAV (Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle), the Ryan Firebee II (Ryan Firebee) drone (Ryan Firebee based Drone for Aeroelastic Structure Testing (DAST))...

television/radio-command guidance), the Australian GAF Jindivik and Teledyne Ryan Firebee I of 1951, while companies like Beechcraft offered their Model 1001 for...

drones as targets led to their use for other missions. The well-proven Ryan Firebee was a good platform for such experiments, and tests to evaluate it for...

(Chang Hong 长虹 - long rainbow) reconnaissance drone, reverse-engineered Ryan Firebee, to replace Tu-4 drone launcher. Y-8F: Livestock transport aircraft with...

the war, Ryan bought the North American Navion design and built it as the Ryan Navion.: 222–225  They also developed and produced the Firebee and related...

C-47 cargo/transport aircraft, one Sikorsky CH-3C helicopter and one Ryan Firebee UAV., while VPAF lost 63 MiG-17s in air combat According to Russian sources...

“backenders”. The United States also performed surveillance using repurposed Ryan Firebee unmanned target drones. Variants of these vehicles, designated the Model...

Moth for Flak training; the Ryan Firebee was a jet-powered target drone developed into long-range reconnaissance UAVs: the Ryan Model 147 Fire Fly and Lightning...

(560 km, 300 nmi) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Ryan Firebee - another unmanned aircraft intended to be both launched and recovered...

UAV" was founded here in 1971 and initially used US drones such as the Ryan Firebee Mabat and the Northrop BQM-74 Chukar Telem. But in the course of the...

United States Air Force (USAF) reduced the radar cross-section of a Ryan Q-2C Firebee drone. This was achieved through specially designed screens over the...

The project was known as HAVE LEMON. HAVE LEMON involved a number of Ryan Firebees equipped with a weapons pylon under each wing, a forward-looking TV...

time of 55 to 60 minutes. It has been noted for its similarity to the Ryan Firebee. The unmanned drone was used in the development of air-to-air missiles...

amphibious aircraft, replicas, like the Ryan Airlines NYP (aka Spirit of St. Louis), and flight vehicles, like the Ryan Firebee and General Atomics MQ-1 Predator...

aircraft shot down by MiG-21s. 1969: U.S. destroyed three MiG-21s; one Ryan Firebee UAV destroyed by a MiG-21. 1970: U.S. destroyed two MiG-21s; North Vietnam...

Dünyası. "HARPY". Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. "Ryan Aeronautical Firebee Drones I - War History". warhistory.org. 8 July 2020. International...

instrument package and launched against a 350-knot (400 mph; 650 km/h) Q2A Ryan Firebee I drone. A similar test on 17 July against a 300-knot (350 mph; 560 km/h)...

observers in the rear fuselage. 13 converted. 10DC: Drone controller with Ryan Firebee drones – two modified in 1957 and operational until 1961. 10MR (later...

Squadron טייסת המל"טים הראשונה Hatzor Airbase Retired: Ryan Firebee I, BQM-74 Chukar, Ryan Firebee II, IAI Scout, IAI Searcher I, IAI Searcher II Active:...

YJ69 turbojet failed to find orders, and the role was taken over by the Ryan Firebee Q-2. Only a few dozen Q-1's were produced in total. The jet-powered Q-1...

pilot of the Vietnam War', achieving no less than six kills over US Ryan 147 Firebee/Lightning Bug drone; his victory-claims list including the kills officially...

800 ft) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era GAF Jindivik Ryan Firebee Martin KDM Plover Related lists List of unmanned aerial vehicles "Aviolanda's...

drones, missiles, and as jet boosters on several aircraft types. Ryan AQM-34 Firebee (B/C) Fairchild AQM-41 Petrel Bell Model 65 Fairchild C-123 Provider...

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Aviolanda AT-21 Ryan Firebee Martin KDM Plover Related lists List of unmanned aerial vehicles "PTA...

of Defense facilities in the Philippines. Wallace was also home to a Ryan Firebee Drone Launch Facility, run by an Air Force contractor. This facility...