Aviones sin piloto (RPAS, UAS, UCAS, drones)

[champi]

Este año, la "Air and Space Power Conference" británica se hizo en línea y está dejando bastantes novedades en cuanto a UAV: https://www.airpower.org.uk/air-space-p ... ence-2020/

Por ejemplo, la firma de los tres primeros Protector de los 20 previstos, por £65 millones: https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/mo ... -aircraft/


Es un programa que acusa sobrecostes y dos años de retrasos: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... or_AOA.pdf

...
Against the ABL of £816.2M approved at 2016 Main Gate, Protector Programme costs have increased by £325.6M. This figure includes: the costs associated with the delay (£186.8M); the cost of changing the primary sensor to avoid future obsolescence (£64.6M); additional Programme costs identified in advance of the Programme delay (£23.4M) and FOREX and accounting adjustments (£50.8M).

The VfM case made in the 2016 MGBC remains valid and was reaffirmed both with HMT at the time of the deferral and by the IAC in the 2019 Review Note. A comparison was made between: developing a new Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) capability (either collaboratively or Nationally); procuring the current Reaper Blk 5 (as used by the US Air Force and others); and procuring Protector. This concluded that procuring Protector represented best VfM, as its higher performance meant that the operational task could be delivered by procuring fewer air vehicles. The 2-year delay and resultant cost increase have not undermined this VfM case.
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También han dicho que evaluarán enjambres de drones y el "loyal wingman" LANCA desde los Queen Elizabeth a partir del año que viene.

Por otra parte, la USAF quiere el reemplazo de sus Reaper en el horizonte de 2031: https://www.airforcemag.com/air-force-s ... x-by-2031/

Deberán hacer más misiones con menos recursos humanos: https://www.airforcemag.com/usaf-wants- ... er-people/

Alguna de las misiones es la de escolta de objetivos aéreos de gran valor, o de protección de bases. Se apunta descaradamente a una mayor velocidad de crucero y a cierta furtividad, además de la independencia del GPS.

Y mientras en la vieja Europa...

[Kique]

Las tropas armenias han derribado un drone Hermes 900 azerí.
https://mobile.twitter.com/descifraguer ... 6652664835

[poliorcetes]

¿Habéis encontrado información de los ataques armenios con drones civiles?

Parece que Armenia esta derribando bastante drones azeries.
https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/12 ... 4386689025

Ya, pero me refiero al empleo de drones COTS para hacer pupita armenia a las tropas azeríes

[Orel]

El Ejército de Tierra español sopesa si trasladar su unidad de drones (el GROSA, GRupo de Obtención de información por Sistemas Aéreos) a La Rioja desde León:
https://www.infodefensa.com/es/2020/07/ ... rioja.html

[poliorcetes]

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Tyler: And being able to also 'look over a wall,' right? That's kind of the biggest thing, right? To be able to just look behind things?

Steve: Look over a wall, on top of a building, behind obstacles, behind a corner. Well, you name it. The other relationship we've developed is with Kratos, whom I suspect you're familiar with… We're working with Kratos to equip their unmanned fighter jets with Switchblade systems, so that those Switchblades would effectively be air-launched from that system… Using a flyer, they could be transported a great distance in a short amount of time, and then be deployed to neutralize any number of targets, whether they be human threats or infrastructure, or whatever. Whatever the need is.


Tyler: You could just think of the disruption of enemy air defenses. I'm sure you could put an RF Seeker on it... Are you talking about XQ-58? Are you talking about the Valkyrie drone?

Steve: It's that program, yeah.

Tyler: We've seen sort of the democratization, I don't know what to call it exactly, of drone technology via it moving to the commercial space. Where you guys were innovative with Switchblade years ago, and now the enemy has figured out, "Well, we can take a commercial drone that we can buy for 1,500 bucks and make it a weapon." Where do you see that going in the future? Obviously, I'm sure you guys have an eye on it with the Iranian attacks and everything else. Can you comment a bit about that, and where the company sees that space heading in the future, and how is the best way we can defend against such threats?

Steve: Let me begin by taking a giant step backwards. If we look ahead five, 10, 15 years in the future, it's hard to imagine a future where drone technology does not become pervasive in society. And that means delivering goods, delivering people, surveilling borders, scanning pipelines and power lines in remote areas that are difficult to get to, and monitoring traffic, you name it. There are so many applications where drone technology that's obviously proven to be safe and reliable, combined with regulations in unmanned traffic management schemes, can enable all kinds of benefits for society.

Similarly in the military domain, we've talked about a number of ways, what we're working on, that have the potential to dramatically help our warfighters and those of our allies operate more safely, more effectively, and also much more accurately. Because we, our country, cares a lot about the people who are not in the fight, making sure that if possible, we can avoid the collateral damage that is often an unfortunate byproduct of warfare.

So, these technologies can find their way into lots of different places. But to your point, that means that Pandora's Box is open. That means all kinds of people can use drone technology for all kinds of things. And in addition to making sure that what our forces use and what we deploy in the national airspace for commercial operations or war operations are safe and reliable and effective, we have to be very cognizant of how the technology can be used against us.

As you know, there's a lot of investment going into counter-drone technologies and ideas, and we're tracking mostly with that, we understand that space very well. We haven't really talked about anything we're doing there, but let's just say we understand it well. We believe that that's going to be an important part of the mix. Being able to defend against adversaries using that against us is important.



https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3 ... eve-gitlin


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[Kique]

¿Habéis encontrado información de los ataques armenios con drones civiles?

Parece que Armenia esta derribando bastante drones azeries.
https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/12 ... 4386689025

Ya, pero me refiero al empleo de drones COTS para hacer pupita armenia a las tropas azeríes

UAV armenio derribado

https://mod.gov.az/az/news/ermenistana- ... 31519.html

[champi]

El tercer RQ-4D de la OTAN llega a Sigonella: https://ac.nato.int/archive/2020/third- ... -sigonella

Se espera que lleguen hasta las cinco unidades durante este mismo año, siendo esta su base de operaciones.

[Orel]

USN intends to use the MQ-8C’s AN/ZPY-8 Osprey radar to provide OTH (over-the-horizon) targeting for Naval Strike Missile (NSM).
This surface warfare (SUW) upgrade to the MQ-8C Fire Scout VTUAS will match the Osprey radar with the BRITE Star Block II (BSBII) targeting turret for over-the-horizon targeting to the Naval Strike Missile installed on the Littoral Combat Ships. Data taken from both systems will be processed using the onboard Minotaur processing suite...
The Osprey X-band radar was selected for the MQ-8C back in 2016. Although available as a 3-panel solution to provide 360 degrees coverage, the U.S. Navy choose a 2-panel solution. It can be seen mounted underneath the nose of the helicopter.
http://alert5.com/2020/07/17/usn-intend ... e-missile/




Boeing conducts end-to-end autonomous flight test in Australian outback.
Boeing announced on 16 July that it has conducted an end-to-end flight mission using three “high-performance testbeds” in the Australian outback in Tara, Queensland, as part of the company’s Autonomous Systems Platform Technology Project....
Boeing, which released a video showing what appeared to be three scale-model jet aircraft, said it successfully performed a number of tests, including the aircraft taking off autonomously, achieving the required in-air formations, departing from the formation, and landing autonomously.

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... an-outback
https://www.flightglobal.com/military-u ... 20.article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-0S4qY7_jM

[Kique]

Esta mañana los armenios han derribado este drone de reconocimiento Orbiter-3 azeries.







Turquía entregó ayer a Azerbaijan 6 drones Bayraktar TB2.

[Kique]

El Ministerio de Defensa de Armenia mostró algunos de los UAV azerbaiyanos y municiones merodeadoras que se estrellaron o cayeron durante el conflicto, incluidos el ThunderB, Orbiter 3 y Skystriker de fabricación israelí.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1285522034320080896

[Orel]

Sener firma con el MinDef el desarrollo de un demostrador de sistema COMINT (inteligencia de comunicaciones) embarcable en UAS tipo MALE (citan el Euromale)... ¿podría ponérsele al Predator B? Por cierto, que sepamos los nuestros venían con RWR/ESM, ¿no?, algo excepcional a día de hoy:
https://www.defensa.com/espana/defensa- ... encia-rpas
https://www.infodefensa.com/es/2020/07/ ... omale.html

Aparte, en RU su ejército ha demostrado a través de QinetiQ la conexión entre un helicóptero ligero H125 y un drón semi-autónomo. Tras haber probado antes este año la conexión entre un helicóptero Wildcat AH1 y un VTUAS, para MUT (manned-unmanned teaming):
https://www.flightglobal.com/farnboroug ... 12.article

Y desarrollando el motor del Euromale:
https://www.flightglobal.com/farnboroug ... 07.article

[Kique]

Azerbaijan ha derribado un drone armenio X-55.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RALee85/stat ... 9430299648

[Lepanto]

Northrop Grumman informó a finàl de junio que la OTAN había alcanzado un hito gracias a la realización de un vuelo de vigilancia de 9 horas realizado con un avión no tripulado RQ-4D Phoenix. En la misión de vuelo participó personal de Northrop para apoyar a la Fuerza de Vigilancia Terrestre de la OTAN, cuyos pilotos estaban a cargo del avión no tripulado. Ver

[Kique]

Drone capturado en Irak (Bagdad), llevaba un proyectil de 2kg.
https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/ ... 6331009029

[poliorcetes]

No he sido capaz de identificar las baterías de ese drón, que parece construido con componentes civiles. ¿La bomba puede ser de instrucción?