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Mohawk OV-1
MT owns and operates six OV-1D Mohawk Aircraft retired from the US Army in 1996. These aircraft have been used extensively in research and development for different new emerging technologies requiring a heavy lift platform with the capability of external stores. The Aircraft has been employed with the development of wide area persistent surveillance, jammer mission, Full motion video, Surrogate UAV, Hyperspectral camera, US Navy Research Laboratory TARPS POD, and US Army Redstone Technical Test Center flying their SEAIP stabilized gimble. The ability to take a customers sensor and custom install and certify for flight is Mohawk Technologies business. The aircraft is completely self deployable for continued operations downrange including complete countermeasures suite. OV-1 has 7 external store locations for a variety of sensors. The aircraft have been contracted for OCONUS missions.
 
   
Owner/Operator: Mohawk Technologies
Type: Conventional Fixed Wing
Duration: 5.5 Hours
Useful Payload: 3550 lbs
Gross Take-off Weight: 20,000 lbs
Onboard Operators: one pilot and one operator
Max Altitude: 25,000 ft
Air Speed: 250 kts.
Range: 1,000 nm
Power: 28 volts, 350 amps DC, 115 volts three phase 400 cycles AC
 

** NOTE: These platforms are suited for non-standard payloads requiring POD mounting or airframe integraton.

The average weight of the sensors flown are in excess of 1200 Lbs.


 
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