{"id":4746,"date":"2019-12-16T17:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T17:30:24","slug":"new-additions-mqm-170a-and-mqm-170c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2019\/12\/16\/new-additions-mqm-170a-and-mqm-170c\/","title":{"rendered":"New Additions: MQM-170A and MQM-170C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003, Griffon Aerospace\u2019s MQM-170A Outlaw was selected to be the next Remotely Piloted Vehicle Target (RPVT) for the US Army. This aircraft replaced Continental RPV\u2019s 1\/5 scale Su-25 Frogfoot and Mi-24 Hind-D helicopter as the primary training aid for the Stinger man-portable air-defense missile system, while also offering the capability to be a UAS trainer or reconnaissance aircraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4747\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-1-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-1-768x335.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-1-1024x447.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-1-999x436.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rugged composite low-cost airframe was designed for harsh field conditions and ease of repair, could be used with or without landing gear, and was typically launched from a pneumatic launcher and recovered by skid landing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the MQM-170C replaced the \u201cA\u201d model and is currently the basic UAS platform for the US military RPVT contracts. It is also fielded by the US Navy, US Marine Corps, US Air Force, and foreign allies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4748\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-2.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-2-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-2-768x339.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-2-1024x452.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/drones-2-999x440.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, Mr. Larry French, the CEO\/CTO of Griffon Aerospace, donated and delivered examples of the MQM-170A and C Outlaws to the museum. They will be placed on display in the museum\u2019s Miniature Aircraft at Work Gallery and will allow us to trace the development of small scale target drone aircraft, from Reginald Denny\u2019s OQ-2A circa World War II, to the currently fielded aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003, Griffon Aerospace\u2019s MQM-170A Outlaw was selected to be the next Remotely Piloted Vehicle Target (RPVT) for the US Army. This aircraft replaced Continental RPV\u2019s 1\/5 scale Su-25 Frogfoot and Mi-24 Hind-D helicopter as the primary training aid for the Stinger man-portable air-defense missile system, while also offering the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-addition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}