UCAV Concepts for CAS

Abstract

A system concept is described that would give individual combat users access to and (limited) control of a network of unmanned air vehicles. Applications would be both lethal and nonlethal. In the lethal form, unmanned combat air vehicles could respond to fire support requests as if they were the virtual equivalent of organic, long-range artillery. In the nonlethal form, unmanned reconnaissance air vehicles could point their sensors at locations and/or areas of interest and respond with target imagery or coordinates of selected target types. Capabilities currently exist to evaluate these concepts in simulated or actual field trials and/or to develop an initial operating capability (IOC).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010339

Entities

People

  • Armand J. Chaput
  • Ken C. Henson
  • Robert A. Ruszkowski Jr

Organizations

  • Lockheed Martin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artillery
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Digital Data
  • Fire Support
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Lessons Learned
  • Surveillance
  • Tactical Aircraft
  • Target Recognition
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Warfare

Readers

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  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs