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Appendix C Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: System Descriptions
Appendix C Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: System Descriptions
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report Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027.1 As noted, system descriptions of the UAVs in this appendix are reproduced from that report. LONG-ENDURANCE, INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES To date, the DOD's long-endurance UAVs have been operationally employed exclusively by the Air Force in the form of the piston-engine Predator A (designated RQ-1)
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and are excerpted directly from the DOD report Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027. RQ-4 Global Hawk The Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high altitude, long endurance UAV designed to provide wide area coverage of up to 40,000 nm2 per day.
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2002. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., December, p.
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, will procure two off-the-shelf Air Force Global Hawk UAV platforms with sensors modified for maritime ISR missions and associated ground equipment for Navy use in CONOPS development, tech nology validation and to conduct experimentation in a maritime environment. The second phase, the BAMS UAV Program, is a formal DoD acquisition initiated to develop, test, field and support a maritime patrol, reconnaissance, and strike support UAV system.
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Much of the information on these programs in the following sections is excerpted from the DOD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027. RQ-2 Pioneer The joint Navy/Marine Corps/Army TUAV was based on an Israeli design and served as the vanguard UAV for naval operations.
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Five Air Vehicles and four Ground Control Stations are now in Developmental Testing. A significant number of successful test flights have been accomplished demonstrating autonomous flight, Tactical Control Data Link (TCDL)
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The descriptions in the following subsections are excerpted from the DOD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027. FQM-151 Pointer Approximately 100 hand-launched, battery powered FQM-151/Pointers [see Figure C.4]
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10] STRIKE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES OR UNINHABITED COMBAT AIR VEHICLES The current Navy/Air Force/DARPA UCAV program envisions the development of a single overall system capable of meeting requirements for both Services.
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The following is a short synopsis of both the Boeing and Northrop Grumman concepts as described in the DOD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027. Since that time, however, a joint UCAV program office has been formed under the leadership of DARPA, with the objective of developing a single UCAV system to meet both Navy and Air Force requirements, similar to the effort under way on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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The descriptions are excerpted from the DOD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027. Advanced Air Vehicle UAV Program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency In addition to its involvement in three UCAV/UCAR demonstration programs, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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With UCAR, the Army, Navy, and Air Force each now have unmanned combat aircraft initiatives.
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The following is a short synopsis of the program as described in the DOD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027. Sensorcraft [see Figure C.8]
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The following are short synopses of some mini-UAV programs described in the DOD Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027 that the committee believes should be proactively monitored. FPASS [see Figure C.9]
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2002. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., December, p.
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might also have application. Similarly, the privately developed Insitu Aerosonde global range mini-UAV and the commercially available Yamaha Rmax helicopter could also have naval applications.
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