There has been tremendous growth in demand for unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) by the United States military since 2001. The United States Navy is making large investments in a number of major UAS programs, including Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) UAS, the Unmanned Combat Aircraft System Demonstrator (UCAS-D), the Fire Scout vertical takeoff/landing tactical UAS (VTUAS), and the Small Tactical/Tier II UAS (STUAS/Tier II UAS). Navy OPNAV N81 asked RAND to provide an evaluation of the Navy's ongoing and proposed UAS programs and to describe the most promising applications of UAS to operational tasks. These assessments were to include arguments for and against using manned vehicles to perform the same tasks as unmanned vehicles, where appropriate. Completed in September 2008, the study does not provide an exhaustive look at all DoD missions for UAS. It does, however, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of manned and unmanned aircraft for certain missions of importance to the Navy. We emphasized traditional Navy missions rather than Navy contributions to irregular warfare, though we examined a few nontraditional missions, such as counter-piracy.


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    Title :

    Applications for Navy Unmanned Aircraft Systems


    Contributors:
    B. Alkire (author) / J. G. Kallimani (author) / P. A. Wilson (author) / L. R. Moore (author)

    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    97 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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