Ryan Firebee - Wikipedia
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, and remains one of the most widely used target drones ever built.
Ryan BQM-34 Firebee - National Museum of the USAF
Ryan BQM-34 Firebee The Firebee, originally designated the Q-2, was a high-speed target drone for both surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles. It was used primarily for the testing of newly-developed missiles and for the training of fighter-interceptor …
Ryan BQM-34A Firebee - Aviation History & Technology Center
Ryan BQM-34A Firebee. The Firebee is a jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or remotely controlled drone with a lineage dating back to the late 1940s. Since introductory designation as the Q-2C, over 7,000 Firebees have been built.
Ryan Firebee: Dawn of Drone Warfare - PlaneHistoria
May 19, 2023 · The Ryan Firebee Remote Control Vehicle, first developed in the 1950s, is an incredibly versatile unmanned drone mainly used as weapon targets or for surveillance. Widely regarded as a trailblazer in pilotless aerial technology, the Firebee remains a staple of the modern military arsenal and over 7000 of them have been assembled since they were ...
Ryan BQM-34F Firebee II - National Museum of the USAF
Ryan BQM-34F Firebee II. The original BQM-34 Firebee II filled U.S. Navy requirements for a supersonic target to train aircrews and to test new weapons systems. The Firebee II retained many of the same basic systems as the highly-successful, subsonic Firebee I.
Teledyne-Ryan AQM-34L Firebee - National Museum of the USAF
The AQM-34L on display flew more than 30 missions over North Vietnam. On Aug. 6, 1972, it was damaged by an SA-2 surface-to-air missile (SAM) and landed by parachute in the South China Sea off the North Vietnamese coast.
Teledyne Ryan AQM-34K Firebee - Western Museum of Flight
Teledyne Ryan AQM-34K. The AQM-34K was a night reconnaissance version of the Firebee series of targets drones and RPVs (Remotely Piloted Vehicles) and was one of the most successful and versatile unmanned aircraft developed at the time. It was equipped with an infrared strobe and Doppler radar.
NOVA | Spies That Fly | AQM-34 Ryan Firebee (USA) - PBS
From October 1964 to April 1975, more than 1,000 AQM-34 Ryan Firebee UAVs flew in excess of 34,000 operational surveillance missions over Southeast Asia.
Ryan Firebee BQM-34A "Drone" - Combat Air Museum
With its high-thrust engine, advanced microprocessor flight control system, rugged airframe, and wide assortment of mission augmentation systems, the BQM-34 Firebee was the premier high performance aerial target system in use during the 1960's.
AQM-34N Firebee - Museum of Aviation
In the mid-1960s the U.S. Air Force needed a system to conduct reconnaissance and gather intelligence without putting aircrews in danger. Ryan’s proven Model 147 Firebee unmanned target drone, built in more than 20 variants, filled the requirement.