Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | RAND
2024年1月8日 · 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 …
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 …
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle End-to-End Support Considerations
2005年10月5日 · Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used successfully in recent combat operations, such as operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. These …
Emerging Technology and Risk Analysis - RAND Corporation
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 …
contested battlespace of small, inexpensive, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform a variety of functions, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); position, …
photos of different UAV and unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) systems that have appeared on the Internet over the past few years. One prominent example is a long-endurance …
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 …
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 …
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, …
2018年7月9日 · Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increas-ingly popular and have many potential applications. This analysis con - siders autonomous UAVs …