The purpose of this paper is to describe some challenges of testing aircraft and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) with reconnaissance payloads, and discuss how the challenges are met. The Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) has participated in testing the Electro-Optical-Long Range Oblique Photography System upgrade for the RF-4C aircraft, the Medium Range UAV (MR UAV), the ARGUS remotely piloted reconnaissance UAV, and other recent programs. Lessons learned from the UTTR's wide variety of recent test experience with developmental reconnaissance aircraft and UAVs can be used to guide future development and flight testing of next-generation systems.
Challenges of testing manned and unmanned aerial vehicles with reconnaissance payloads
Airborne Reconnaissance XVII ; 1993 ; San Diego,CA,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 2023
1993-12-20
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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