Galileo Avionica, the Italian unit of SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems and part of the Finmeccanica group, is demonstrating its leadership in the UAV systems and targets to the American market at the annual AUSA meeting (Association of the United States Army) held in Washington, DC.

The Mirach 100/5 system designed and developed by Galileo Avionica, represents the state of the art in the field of Aerial Target Drones and can be used for normal training in anti-aircraft missile firing by naval and ground units or for the evaluation and qualification of missiles under development. Mirach 100/5 effectively simulates a missile or a fighter aircraft carrying out “g” weave manoeuvres by using infrared countermeasures and simulating high thermal augmentation.

As for missile qualification, Mirach 100/5 is able to measure with extreme precision, by means of a special sensor aboard, the trajectory and attitude of a missile and transmit the data to the ground control station in real time. The Mirach 100/5 system has been further enhanced with the addition of a mini-UAV secondary aerial target drone named Locusta. Designed and developed by Galileo Avionica, Locusta received last June from the German Defence Ministry (BWB) a qualification certificate as an Anti Radiation Missile Simulator (ARMS) for the Tactical Firings of the German Aeronautics with Patriot Arm System. The qualification programme concluded by performing a real mission where the Locusta has been intercepted by a Patriot Missile, while the Mirach 100/5 completed its mission and was successfully recovered.

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