Enhanced Utility of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Contested and Denied Environments

Abstract

Air Force use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike missions over the past decade have primarily been limited to permissive environments; however, future operations may require the employment of UAVs in contested or denied environments in which highly capable integrated air defenses challenge survivability and utility of typical UAVs. While signature reduction is one potential means for achieving increased survivability, there are other approaches that could offer various levels of enhanced utility, either by increasing survivability or by other means. Examples include onboard and offboard electronic protection, disaggregating UAV functions across multiple platforms, or deploying UAVs in numbers that substantially complicate an adversary's defensive capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 08, 2015
Accession Number
AD1147288

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Industry
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Area Denial
  • Automation
  • Delphi Method
  • Environment
  • Navigation
  • Platforms
  • Signature Reduction
  • Surveillance
  • Survivability
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

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  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Microelectronics