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2023年6月29日 · Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft that carries no human pilot or passengers. UAVs—sometimes called drones—can be fully or partially autonomous but are more often controlled remotely by a human pilot. RAND research has contributed to the public discussion on the use of drones for warfare and surveillance.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle End-to-End Support Considerations
2005年10月5日 · Unmanned Aerial Vehicle End-to-End Support Considerations. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used successfully in recent combat operations, such as operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. These successes have confirmed the military utility of UAVs and portend that a greater number of such vehicles may become part of the DoD’s ...
Emerging Technology and Risk Analysis: Unmanned Aerial Systems ...
2024年2月15日 · Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) or drone technologies, both individual systems and swarms of UASs, have proliferated over the past 25 years for a wide variety of applications. As a result, this technology and the ability to employ these UAS capabilities represent both a current and a growing threat as the technology continues to mature.
Feasibility of Laser Power Transmission to a High-Altitude …
2011年6月9日 · Solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated interesting capabilities for high altitude and long endurance. However, current solar-powered UAVs are extremely light and fragile and have small payloads. This report examines whether a laser-beam-powered UAV could be scaled up to a sufficient size to be of practical interest, and ...
Key findings. Unmanned systems are emerging as a key area of emphasis for China, one that appears to enjoy consid-erable national-level funding and support. Unmanned vehicles with intelligence capabilities could improve Chinese long-distance targeting. Unmanned vehicles with surveillance and reconnais-sance capabilities could play a growing ...
Emerging Trends in China's Development of Unmanned Systems
2015年3月12日 · To better understand trends in Chinese unmanned systems research, development, acquisition, and employment, and their potential implications, RAND undertook exploratory analysis to lay an initial foundation for future research on China's development and use of unmanned systems, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned undersea …
Operating Low-Cost, Reusable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in …
2020年5月11日 · One intriguing approach is to employ large numbers of relatively low-cost, attritable—reusable, and ultimately expendable—unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform a variety of tasks in support of joint force defensive campaigns. This could allow land-based forces to generate and sustain airpower without relying on fixed base ...
Balancing Rapid Acquisition of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with …
2005年12月19日 · Balancing Rapid Acquisition of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Support Considerations. The role of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and time-critical targeting in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom confirmed their utility in U.S. combat operations. However, because of an acquisition ...
contested battlespace of small, inexpensive, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform a variety of functions, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); position, navigation, and timing (PNT); communications; and strike. The low-cost attritable aircraft
The Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Acquisition Process
There is a long history of efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the weapon acquisition process. The purpose of this case study is to understand how one such program, the High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (HAE UAV), has benefited from certain changes from established acquisition procedures.