Aérospatiale C.22

The Aérospatiale C.22 is a subsonic target drone developed and manufactured by Aérospatiale since 1980 and used in testing the MBDA Aster missile. It has no crew, is about 5.25 metres long with a wingspan of 2.5 metres, and weighs 255 kilograms empty and 630 kilograms at launch. A single Microturbo TRI 60 turbojet of 3.4 kilonewtons thrust powers it, helped off the rail by two jettisonable solid-fuel booster rockets, and it can reach just under Mach 0.95 and a ceiling of 14,000 metres, with an endurance of two and a half hours at 12,000 metres. In the 1995 trials at the Centre d'Essais des Landes, 74 targets were launched, twenty of them C22 drones alongside eleven Nord Aviation CT20 and twenty-seven Fox. It can also tow a target for training anti-aircraft gun crews and ground-to-air missile batteries, and it was last used in France in 2014.