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Phoenix

Country of Origin: Britain

The British Phoenix unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), since withdrawn from service, was designed to provide battlefield surveillance and target-acquisition information to multiple launch rocket systems and the AS90 self-propelled howitzer.

The Phoenix was made of a rugged modular composite (glass-fiber, Kevlar, carbon-fiber). The air vehicle had a boxy fuselage with a nose-mounted engine driving a two-blade propeller. The wings were mounted high in the middle of the fuselage with...

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