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An analytical view on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Arunima Sharma

Article ID: 2620
Vol 2, Issue 2, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/cte.v2i2.2620
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Abstract

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is a booming technology with a future perspective and does have a huge S potential to transfigure warfare and enable up to date civilian applications. It furthermore matures in a technological way as to be impinged into the civil society. In 2010, the importance of scientific applications in the respective field was demonstrated by DOD in the contemporary years. In recent years, UAS has played an integral role in a number of missions that are public like law enforcement which is local, board surveillance, weather monitoring, wildlife surveys, military training. UAS do force some challenges which are numbered as lacking a pilot which is on-board in order to see and hence avoiding supplemental aircrafts and furthermore, the extensive discrepancy in the missions related to UAS and in order to implement the operations in NextGen time frame impinged in NAS, the capabilities of the respective topic must be communicated. The applications of UAS are numbered as Ariel Mapping and Meteorology, intelligence, remote sensing, surveillance and reconnaissance, environmental monitoring and agriculture, border security, security applications and law enforcement, counter insurgency, electronic attacks, attack strike, communication relay, target identification and designation. Via this survey paper, it can be concluded that UAS is emerging as a valuable and helpful technology having tremendous potential for revolting warfare and enabling new applications w.r.t the UAS field.

Keywords

UAS; reconnaissance; NAS; NextGen; time frame; security; payload

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