Engineering:BAE Systems Corax

Short description: British experimental unmanned aerial vehicle

BAE Systems prototype Corax UAV

The Corax, also known as Raven (Corax being Latin for raven), was a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the British Armed Forces developed by BAE Systems Military Air & Information.

Its first test flight was in 2004 after a ten-month development cycle. It was first unveiled to the public in January 2006.

Corax uses stealth technology.

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

• General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
• Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar
• Dassault nEUROn
• EADS Barracuda
• Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel
• BAE Systems Taranis

References

• Paul Rincon (16 January 2006), Covers come off UK spy plane, BBC News, https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4617588.stm 

External links

• Flight International article on the unveiling of Corax