Unmanned Vehicles handbook 2008
Unmanned Vehicles handbook 2008
The Shephard Press | 2007 | ISBN: N/A | English | 141 Pages | PDF | 7.55 MB
The Shephard Press | 2007 | ISBN: N/A | English | 141 Pages | PDF | 7.55 MB
Introduction
Peter Donaldson welcomes readers to the latest edition of the Shephard Unmanned Vehicles Handbook
US dogfight over unmanned vehicles
Ian Kemp examines the debate within the Pentagon over the management of medium- and high-altitude unmanned aircraft systems
Unmanned aircraft - in production
Technical data and up-to-date specifications on current production unmanned aircraft (UA) around the world. Tactical and strategic military and civil UA are included
Unmanned aircraft - in development
Unmanned aircraft that are either in their developmental stage and/or undergoing flight-testing are included in this section
Aerial targets
Aerial targets (AT) play a significant role in a variety of military development and training applications. This section lists jet and propeller driven ATs alphabetically by name
Micro/mini UA, UCAVs and Lethal UA
The latest performance specifications for micro/mini unmanned aircraft (MUA), unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and lethal unmanned aircraft
Aircraft payload systems
A sampling of payloads currently available to the international UA market. The section is divided into communications, electro-optical, electronic warfare, FLIR/thermal imaging, integrated and radar systems.