Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | RAND
Jan 8, 2024 · 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 …
Operating Low-Cost, Reusable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in …
May 11, 2020 · One intriguing approach is to employ large numbers of relatively low-cost, attritable—reusable, and ultimately expendable—unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform …
Emerging Technology and Risk Analysis - RAND Corporation
Feb 15, 2024 · 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 …
Emerging Trends in China's Development of Unmanned Systems
Mar 12, 2015 · To better understand trends in Chinese unmanned systems research, development, acquisition, and employment, and their potential implications, RAND undertook …
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle End-to-End Support Considerations
Oct 5, 2005 · Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used successfully in recent combat operations, such as operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. These successes have …
Balancing Rapid Acquisition of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with …
Dec 19, 2005 · RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF) analyzed support options for current U.S. Air Force UAV systems, including the Global Hawk, Predator, Pointer, Raven, Force Protection …
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 …
Feasibility of Laser Power Transmission to a High-Altitude …
Jun 9, 2011 · Solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated interesting capabilities for high altitude and long endurance. However, current solar-powered UAVs are …
contested battlespace of small, inexpensive, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform a variety of functions, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); position, …
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, …