Medium Range Unmanned Aerial System

Abstract

This program is a FY12 New Start. This is a future sea and land based Verical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) with at least a 300 mile radius and 9 hours endurance. Primary mission is Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. The system will be fully autonomous and have provisions for future weapons system integration. This will be a technology development effort consisting of initial trade studies to identify enabling technologies and technology gaps and identify potential candidate systems suitable for technology insertion. Technology thrust areas will include air-vehicle performance, shipboard launch and recovery, autonomous operations and sensors technologies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
3315_0603123N_3_1319_PB_2012

Tags

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Oceanography.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs

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