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	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - MSN Encarta
		UAVs are employed when a piloted reconnaissance aircraft would run a high risk of being attacked or for very long missions that would exceed a pilot’s physical endurance.
		UAVs could also be used for aerial surveys and to inspect pipelines and power lines—jobs done today by piloted airplanes.
		The first unmanned aircraft were cruise missiles built to destroy themselves along with their targets, such as the Kettering Aerial Torpedo, a 240-kg (530-lb) flying bomb developed for the United States Army in 1918.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701610394/Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicle.html (1430 words)

	Unmanned aerial vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the latest generation of pilotless aircraft.
		A weaponized UAV is known as an Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle, or UCAV for short.
		In fact, the field of air vehicle autonomy is a recently emerging field, whose economics is largely driven by the military to develop battle ready technology for the warfighter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle (1187 words)

	Unmanned aerial vehicle catcher - Patent 7264204
		Launch and recovery of an aerial vehicle by a forwardly moving surface vehicle relies on a winch module having a winch to selectively reel out and reel in a towline and a sensor capable of sensing tension in the towline.
		A first signal representative of tension of the towline causes the winch to reel in the towline and to bring the aerial vehicle to the surface vehicle, and a second sensor associated with the hook generates a second signal representative of tension in the hook and causes the aerial vehicle to cut its motor.
		A motor driven aerial vehicle flies through the air and has a grabber hook mechanism having a pivoted boom supporting a hook to engage the snagging wire.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /7264204.html (4307 words)

	UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
		UAV RQ-1A Predator is a medium-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle system (UAV= Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).
		UAV system is for surveillance, reconnaisance and target mission (and later model can also attack).
		Air vehicle is a mid-wing monoplane with a slender fuselage housing the payload and fuel.
	www.thaitechnics.com /aircraft/uav.html (593 words)

	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Revealed
		UAVs are known by various names, including drones, remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs), pilotless aircrafts, etc. It does not matter which name is being used, UAVs have been a feature of aviation for much of its history, though in limited or secondary roles.
		The unmanned aerial vehicle, on the other hand, has always had modest performance targets and has relied on its size and unconventional flight profiles to survive in a high threat environment.
		Also, though the UAV overcomes many of the limitations of manned aircraft in weather, some UAVs suffer from their inability to operate in icing conditions due to the inherent disadvantages of incorporating extra weight into such small vehicles.
	people.bath.ac.uk /saat20 (982 words)

	Drones UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
		An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program could be a real problem for homeland defense because some UAVs are easy to conceal and hard to detect using radar.
		The Pioneer UAV which was used in Gulf War had many problems, but the newer drones like the Predator and the Global Hawk are a viable option and a new technological tool for battlefield commanders.
		UAVs are flown from a ground station van by a "pilot" with a joystick and monitoring screens, including one giving the view from a color TV camera in the aircraft's nose.
	www.goldcrow.com /drone/drones.htm (2179 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Roadmap Outlines Future Of Unmanned Combat And More - 25/3/03
		He's here to discuss the recent release of the UAV Roadmap, which lays out the development and use of unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned air combat vehicles over the next 25 years.
		We have a variety of programs ongoing, but the successful integration of unmanned aerial vehicles into the airspace, both the military airspace with other manned systems and the civilian airspace, we believe is key to enabling the full capabilities that UAVs promise to provide.
		In Section 1 of the roadmap, we define a UAV, and actually we use the definition out of Joint Pub 1-1, which basically says a UAV is an unmanned system that generates its lift through propulsion.
	www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/uavroadmap.htm (7140 words)

	Drone aircraft may prowl U.S. skies - CNET News.com
		Unmanned aerial vehicles have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases, and even launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists.
		Soon aerial refueling will be taking place over the skies of the world to keep such unmanned cost competitive systems air-born days or weeks at a time due to the new technologies of engine bearings soon coming to market.
		I have been working on this aerial refueling technology for the past couple of years that will allow the refueling of even the smallest unmanned aviation systems to be refueled in mid-air at airspeeds below 150 knots.
	www.news.com /Drone-aircraft-may-prowl-U.S.-skies/2100-11746_3-6055658.html (1443 words)

	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
		Then, the vehicle launches a second vehicle that enters the building, captures video or photos of some sort of data and transmits that data back the starting point.
		The Army is interested in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research because the vehicles could protect soldiers in the field.
		UAVs could be sent into caves to search for terror suspects, into buildings to search for explosives, or ahead of a convoy to scout for an ambush.
	www.hpcnet.org /sdsmt/SiteID=404081 (618 words)

	The UAV - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
		These UAV range in cost from a few thousand dollars to tens of millions of dollars, and the aircraft used in these systems range in size from a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) weighing less than one pound to large aircraft weighing over 40,000 pounds.
		In fact, the field of air vehicle autonomy is a recently emerging field, whose economics is largely driven by the military to develop battle ready technology for the warfighter.
		Because of this, autonomy has been and may continue to be the bottleneck for future UAV developments, and the overall value and rate of expansion of the future UAV market could be largely driven by advances to be made in the field of autonomy.
	www.theuav.com (1285 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Provides 'Eye in the Sky'
		The UAV is a reconnaissance drone used primarily for IED sweeps and reconnaissance for the Baqubah Task Force.
		The UAV is brought back down to the landing strip using a Tactical Automated Landing System.
		The entire operation, consisting of an Air Vehicle Transporter - which houses three aircraft, spare parts, tool boxes, the landing system and fuel - the launcher and ground control station, is designed to fit inside a C-130 airplane for rapid deployment, said Sgt. Francisco Huereque, the maintenance chief.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/oct2004/a101804f.html (852 words)

	Air Force Technology - Predator - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV
		In November 2002 in Yemen, a Predator UAV was used to drop a Hellfire missile which destroyed a civilian vehicle carrying suspected terrorists.
		The surveillance and reconnaissance payload capacity is 450lb and the vehicle carries electro-optical and infrared cameras and a synthetic aperture radar.
		The UAV ground control station is built into a single 30ft trailer, containing pilot and payload operator consoles, three Boeing data exploitation and mission planning consoles and two synthetic aperture radar workstations together with satellite and line-of-sight ground data terminals.
	www.airforce-technology.com /projects/predator (1516 words)

	ENEMY, NEVERMORE: Raven UAV Gets the Drop on IEDs
		For troops raised with a Playstation in their hands, the Raven UAV is as easy to control as moving a joystick and looking at a screen.
		The UAV is small and can be transported easily in three small cases that fit into a ruck sack.
		Where large UAVs need space to taxi and land, the Raven is launched by hand and requires one pilot and a second person to monitor the incoming information.
	www.military.com /soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_Raven,,00.html (823 words)

	Future Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle - UCAV
		It was not the first time UAVs carried and deployed weapons successfully, US Navy TDR-1 unmanned aircraft attacked Japanese shipping off the Solomon Islands with 2,000lb bombs and torpedoes in 1944 and Maverick and Stubby Hobo missiles were test fired successfully from Ryan Firebee UAVs during the 1970s.
		Nor was this the first time a UAV had been used to assassinate a terrorist although it was the first to use its own weapon.
		Two of the six Phoenix systems, each of nine UAVs, are available for operational deployment at five days' notice and the other four at between 30 and 60 days' notice.
	www.global-defence.com /2003/ucav_03.htm (1201 words)

	SwRI Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology Brochure
		To answer these needs, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is developing new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies to perform missions requiring long endurance and low observability and that entail extreme environmental exposure and high risk.
		Unmanned aerial vehicles require lightweight, low-maintenance, and reliable propulsion systems.
		The ground station equipment for the lighter-than-air vehicle, consisting of a laptop computer, radio modem, and whip antenna, enable operating personnel to establish an off-site control center with minimal support equipment.
	www.swri.edu /3pubs/brochure/d09/uavt/uavt.htm (670 words)

	ASN-206 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - SinoDefence.com
		The UAV is being widely used by the PLA for various tactical roles.
		The UAV is controlled by a digital flight control and management system, and is connected with the ground station through its intergrade radio system and advanced mission control system.
		The UAV is powered by a horizontally opposed, air-cooled, 4 cylinder, 2 stroke HS-700 piston engine rated at 51hp.
	www.sinodefence.com /airforce/uav/asn206.asp (584 words)

	NOVA \| Spies That Fly \| Time Line of UAVs \| PBS
		During World War I, the first UAVs took flight in the U.S. Though the success of UAVs in test flights was erratic, the military recognized their potential in combat.
		America's attempts to eliminate the V-1 laid the groundwork for post-war UAV programs in the U.S. From their early use as target drones and remotely piloted combat vehicles, UAVs took on a new role during the Vietnam War: stealth surveillance.
		The surveillance UAVs of tomorrow may evolve into MAVs, or micro aerial vehicles, lilliputian spies so tiny they can take off and land in the palm of their operators' hands.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/spiesfly/uavs.html (359 words)

	DefenseLink News Article: Army Exhibits Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
		The Shadow 200 is a tactical vehicle meant to accompany initial entry ground forces.
		The aerial vehicle has a 13- foot wingspan and can stay aloft up to 14,000 feet over a target for five to six hours.
		Godoy said air vehicle operators and mission payload specialists must pass the same physical exams as pilots of manned aircraft.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/newsarticle.aspx?id=43425 (399 words)

	Boeing: History -- Products - Boeing ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
		ScanEagle is a low-cost, long-endurance, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed and built by Boeing and The Insitu Group.
		The UAV is based on Insitu's SeaScan miniature robotic aircraft and draws on Boeing's systems integration, communications and payload technologies.
		During the record-setting flight, it did aerial surveillance of sea conditions and ships in Puget Sound, Wash., waters, demonstrating the type of mission anticipated for shipboard operations.
	www.boeing.com /history/boeing/scaneagle.html (613 words)

	Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
		The UAV crashed over eastern Paktya province and mechanical problems are believed to be the cause, the Combined Military Command announced.
		The organization first produced the Pehbad UAV in 1987 and later such variants as the Ababil, which is manufactured from fiberglass.
		Mars UAV proposals have been at a disadvantage when competing with orbiters, rovers, or landers because of their comparatively short mission duration (DAILY, Dec. 23, 2002).
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/31892/20041208/www.livingroom.org.au/uavblog (1366 words)

	Close Range - Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (CR-TUAV)
		To facilitate rapid movement, the control of the UAV may be passed to other control stations or launch/recovery stations to allow continuous flight operations to meet the commander's requirements.
		As such, the UAV is a key brigade collection asset that supports the near real time visualization of the battlespace and is focused on the brigade's decisive operations.
		The UAV allows the commander to quickly assess critical components of his battlespace, such as trafficability, suitability for logistical and fire support assets, and activities of civilians on the battlefield during the planning process.
	www.fas.org /irp/program/collect/cr-tuav.htm (2777 words)

	Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle Operator Vehicle Interface (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The objective of this task is to identify and integrate operator-vehicle interface (OVI) technologies required to operate and manage multiple strike unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with minimal crew size.
		Technical challenges include defining and integrating strike UAV operator-interface systems which facilitate operator and mission performance equal to or better than that found in today's manned fighter/attack aircraft.
		In addition, emphasis will be placed on ensuring that the crew maintains, with acceptable workload levels, situation awareness of the combat environment, the automation, and interaction between/among the multi-ship package.
	www.hec.afrl.af.mil /Organization/HECI/ovi.asp (313 words)

	UAV Forum \| Library \| Librarian's Desk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A: An 'unmanned aerial vehicle' is a powered aircraft that does not carry a human operator, uses aerodynamic forces to provide lift, can fly autonomously (by an onboard computer) and/or be piloted remotely (by radio control), and can be recovered for repeated flights.
		The 950-lb UAV flew 1000 yards after being launched by a falling-weight catapult; six were built and several made repeated flights.
		These UAVs can generally be categorized as (1) tactical, (2) endurance, (3) vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), (4) man portable, or hand-launched, (5) optionally piloted vehicles (OPVs), (6) micro air vehicles (MAVs), and (7) research (the UAV equivalent of X-planes); definitions of these categories are also found in the Vehicles Overview subsection.
	www.uavforum.com /library/librarian.htm (1018 words)

	Air Force Technology - Hunter RQ-5A / MQ-5B/C - Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
		The RQ-5A Hunter air vehicle is a fixed-wing, twin-tail boom aircraft with a dual rudder.
		The air vehicle can be launched from a paved or semi-paved runway or it can use a rocket assisted (RATO) system, where it is launched from a zero-length launcher using a rocket booster.
		These allow the air vehicle to operate at higher altitudes of 6,100m (20,000ft) and increase endurance from 12 hours to 15 hours.
	www.airforce-technology.com /projects/hunter (1285 words)

	Mirabilis Design - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
		Based on the analysis conducted by constructing a model of the proposed architecture and support for the different use scenarios, the optimal architecture was identified to be a Datalink with a 6-board, 30 MHz processor, 66 MHz shared cache and 1 Mbps- 4 link downlink.
		The simulation model evaluates the maximum handling capacity of the processing units, impact of channel errors and speed on the latency, and performance of the 1553B bus.
		End-to-end latency from the sensors to the ground vehicles.
	www.mirabilisdesign.com /Pages/Demonstrations/performance/UAV/UAV_Summary.html (1806 words)

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