{"id":24850,"date":"2024-07-08T06:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24850"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:32:29","slug":"camcopter-s-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/camcopter-s-100\/","title":{"rendered":"What is CAMCOPTER S-100?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About CAMCOPTER S-100:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>Australian unmanned aerial vehicle<\/strong> (UAV) using a <strong>rotorcraft design<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Produced by the <strong>Austrian company Schiebel<\/strong>, it was developed from 2003 to 2005.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It has a maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of 200 kg with <strong>6 hours endurance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a maximum speed of 220 km\/hr and a ceiling of 5,500 m.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is powered by a <strong>heavy fuel engine<\/strong> and has the capability to carry <strong>multiple payloads<\/strong> which are <strong>surveillance as well as tactical<\/strong> in nature. The maximum payload weight is 50 kg.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>needs no prepared area or supporting launch<\/strong> or recovery<strong> equipment<\/strong>. It operates day and night, under adverse weather conditions.<\/li>\n<li>The S-100 <strong>navigates automatically <\/strong>via pre-programmed GPS waypoints <strong>or can beoperated directly with a pilot control unit<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Missions are planned and controlled<\/strong> via a simple point-and-click graphical user interface.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High-definition payload imagery is transmitted <\/strong>to the control station <strong>in real time.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Using \u201c<strong>fly-by-wire\u201d technology<\/strong> controlled by redundant flight computers, the UAV can <strong>complete its mission automatically<\/strong> in the most complex of electromagnetic environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a rotorcraft?<\/h3>\n<p>A rotorcraft (or rotary wing aircraft) is a heavier-than-air aircraft that uses lift generated by wings, called rotor blades, that revolve around a mast. Several rotor blades mounted to a single mast are referred to as a rotor. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) defines a rotorcraft as supported in flight by the reactions of the air on one or more rotors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/india\/camcopter-s-100-will-provide-much-needed-flexibility-in-sea-based-ops-to-indian-navy-says-schiebel-india-ceo-jajati-mohanty-13789849.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Camcopter S-100 will provide much-needed flexibility in sea-based ops to Indian Navy, says Schiebel India CEO Jajati Mohanty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMCOPTER S-100 is an Australian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using a rotorcraft design. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}