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The Thales Watchkeeper WK450 is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) formerly used by the British Army. It was developed by UAV Tactical Systems (U-TacS), a joint venture of Elbit Systems UK and Thales UK, and is based on Elbit's Hermes 450.
The Watchkeeper entered full service in 2019, but was retired by March 2025, significantly before its earlier planned out-of-service date of 2042.
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PACK CONTENTS
The Watchkeeper WK450 is a Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) for all weather, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) use by the British Army.
It has a mass of 450 kg, a typical endurance of 17 hours, a payload capacity of 150 kg and uses a rotary Wankel engine. It can operate up to 150 km from the Ground Control Station (although multiple stations can be linked to extend the range). It was originally intended to enter service in June 2010, but years of delays, technical issues, hardware modifications, difficulties in training sufficient pilots and incidents means that it is not expected to be fully operational until late 2017.
- Watchkeeper Drone
- Ground Control Station Shelter
FEATURES:
- The Watchkeeper IS UNARMED
- It does not even have Countermeasures.
- Ground Control Station - placeable 20ft ISO container unit - Simply a way to tidy your loose UAV operators away. A light Armoured box to prtect your men and provide a target object for OPFOR
- Improved sensors and Radar
CLASSNAMES:
- “rksla3_uav_watchkeeper_base”
- “rksla3_uav_watchkeeper_uk”
- “rksla3_uav_wkshelter”
- “rksla3_uav_wkcontainer”
HOW TO
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CHANGELOG
KNOWN ISSUES
- Pending
BUGS AND FEEDBACK
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CREDITS
This addons and model is 100% unique and does not incorporate any 3rd party content:
| Model | RKSL Rock |
|---|---|
| Textures | RKSL Rock |
| Turret Animation Setup | RKSL Rock |
| Config | RKSL Rock |
| Testing | Toxic Lemon The DAR-V Team Fuller of Task Force 316 |
| Research & Information | Banks for answering questions and reviewing Pizza.(Avoid Dominoes in Yeovil) hil, Julian & Marc of Royal Artillery. (Great info on the use of H450 and WK450 in Afghanistan - Some declassified pics and great banter.) Francois P of Thales (Very supportive, lots of pointers on where to look for reference.) Ari of Elbit (Forgotten his last name - met at a tradeshow and he was enormously helpful.) Ministy of Defence Images Ministry of Defence - Defence Equiment and Support DeSider magazine |
And so many others that provided help solving many many issues.
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RKSL Studios Watchkeeper Tactical UAV
Thanks Rock June 2019