Q-2C PIN POINT LAND RECOVERY

Abstract

Because of operational and maintenance problems associated with water recovery of Firebee drone targets, a project was established to develop a land recovery capability and evaluate its overall effectiveness. For the most part, structural and equipment damage incurred by land recovered drones was minor. The average man-hour expenditure to rehabilitate a land recovered drone was 36% less than required to rehabilitate a water recovered drone. In addition, for a land recovered drone, the maintenance turn around time in clock hours was reduced. To achieve these benefits, however, mission range time is compromised by the loss of approximately 30% of the available on-station time per drone flight. This sacrifice of available on station time can generate a requirement for additional drone flights. The test demonstrated that the pinpoint land recovery concept can be utilized to support daily Weapons Center requirements with a resultant decrease in maintenance workload and decrease in target range time. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 15, 1962
Accession Number
AD0282345

Entities

People

  • Joel Sucov

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Diving
  • Diving Equipment
  • Drones
  • Maintenance
  • Recovery
  • Target Drones
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Unmanned Maritime Systems
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicle Equipment
  • Vehicles
  • Workload

Readers

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  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs