{"id":218,"date":"2008-02-12T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T05:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-02-12T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T05:22:20","slug":"chukar-iii-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Chukar III in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/chukar_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The above photo was taken about ten years ago, when I was still with the Center for Aviation and Space Technology (CAST) of the ITRI.  CAST was developing small jet engines for RC aircraft and UAV then.  So I guess CAST aquired this Chukar III target drone for studying.  But I have no idea where the drone was originally from (most likely from Taiwan&#8217;s military).  Below the Chukar and partly visible in the photo is the fuselage of the much larger MQM-107 target drone.  I am not aware of its origin either.<\/p>\n<p>The next picture reveals the avionics bay of the Chukar III.  The black ball in the front is the forward radar reflector.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/chukar_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The last picture shows where the recovery parachute is packed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/chukar_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<p>I found the following schematic of BQM-74, on which the Chukar III is based, from US Navy's website.  Interestingly, it does not show the parachute compartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/chukar.gif\"><\/p>\n\n --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above photo was taken about ten years ago, when I was still with the Center for Aviation and Space Technology (CAST) of the ITRI. CAST was developing small jet engines for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}