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

[Vorlon]

https://publicaciones.defensa.gob.es/me ... s-pdf.html

Artículo del tristísimo panorama UAV español ("RPAS en el Ejército de Tierra", Comandante Inf. D. Daniel Blanco Vega).

saludos

[Orel]

Artículo del tristísimo panorama UAV español

Desde luego.

Airbus will begin taking customer commitments for its Zephyr high-altitude platform station [HAPS] this year, with the production aircraft’s entry into service being targeted by the end of 2024.
https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/ai ... 46.article

China’s Tengden TB-001 UAV may have a role in guiding Chinese ballistic missiles to their targets, and for providing real-time battle damage assessment.
https://www.flightglobal.com/military-u ... 66.article

El primer avión no tripulado MQ-9A M2DO ya vuela
General Atomics tiene en ensayos en vuelo la primera variante de producción MQ-9A Multi-Domain Operations (M2DO), una variante mejorada de este sistema aéreo no tripulado MQ-9A Block 5, también conocida como -25, de la USAF.
Incluye características clave que permitirán la integración de sistemas de misión abiertos u OMS (Open Mission System).
Tiene una mejor distribución y redundancia de energía, optimizaciones en el GPS, radar-altímetros, dirección de la rueda de morro y mejoras en el sistema de sensores del ángulo de ataque o AoA (Angle of Attack). La USAF y el US Marine Corps recibirán estos aviones mejorados Block 5 listos para M2DO, sin especificar el número total de aeronaves que recibirán estas mejoras.
https://www.defensa.com/industria/prime ... o-ya-vuela

[Orel]

Varias noticias relevantes, recopiladas desde navidad:

As part of the Army of Drones project, the government of Ukraine have purchased 1,577 drones, 928 of which have already been handed over to the defenders of Ukraine, Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov has said. “...Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world donated for each of them through UNITED24.”
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/06/15 ... s-project/

FAA Approves BVLOS Drone Flights on North Dakota Drone System
Leveraging Vantis, the state’s first-of-its-kind UAS network, uAvionix, a drone company, received approval by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone flights in North Dakota.
uAvionix demonstrated to the FAA that it established adequate risk mitigations to satisfy required safety standards for the specified BVLOS operation within the national airspace system.
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/12/fa ... ne-system/

The Royal Navy’s drone squadron have taken their expertise in uncrewed systems one step further by building their own quadcopter.
Personnel from 700X Naval Air Squadron have built their first remotely-piloted air system in a milestone moment
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/10/uk ... own-drone/

China’s Naval Mothership for Aerial Drones Appears on TV
China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy, or PLAN, appears to have put an unusual catamaran drone mini-carrier into service as part of an experimental naval training force.
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/06/ch ... ars-on-tv/


https://www.uasvision.com/wp-content/up ... 20x345.png

Chinese Scientists Develop Laser-Powered Drone to Stay Aloft ‘Forever’
A team of researchers in northwest China says it has developed a way to use high-energy laser beams, not to destroy drones but to keep them in the air “forever”.
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/09/ch ... t-forever/

Walmart Now Operates Drone Delivery in 7 States, Completes 6,000 Drone Deliveries
Over the past year, Walmart has safely completed more than 6,000 deliveries to customers in as little as 30 minutes. The top five items delivered were, in order, Cookies and Ice Cream 16 oz, 2lb Bag of Lemons, Hot Rotisserie Chicken, Red Bull 8.4 fl. oz, and Paper Towels. Currently 85% of items in a Walmart Neighborhood Market meet the 10 lb. weight and volume requirements for drone delivery.
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/09/wa ... eliveries/

[CVR]

Spain unveils 40mm MK19 Guardian ‘hard-kill’ anti-drone turret: https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/06/2 ... ne-turret/
Editado: mejor en español: https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diari ... uardian-20

[dejece]

Ucrania ha recibido nueve drones K10 Poseidon Mk II.

[Orel]

Elbit Systems UK has been awarded a contract to provide Magni-X VTOL micro-UAS to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). The contract has been awarded as part of the British Army’s Human Machine Teaming framework, and it will be delivered by mid-2023.
Magni-X is a proven military-grade UAS from a family of quadcopter platforms already in service with armed forces across the globe... is a 2kg, packable and easily portable, which is capable of autonomous flight and can be integrated with Elbit’s Legion-X System to give it swarming capabilities, acting as a force multiplier for soldiers on the ground... and support combat and intelligence operations for up to 60 minutes at a time.
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/16/el ... tish-army/

Argentina Buys Loitering Munitions from Israel
This is a first purchase, with the purpose of evaluating the technical and operational characteristics of the loitering munitions models UVISION HERO-30 (light) and HERO-120 (medium), within the different units of the Argentine Armed Forces.
...were obtained with financing from the National Defense Fund (FONDEF).
... Together with this purchase, the marauding munition is incorporated in an inert variant, which is the same system but without the explosive charge, allowing it to increase the size of the batteries to give it greater loitering autonomy to specifically fulfill observation and surveillance functions or for personnel training, since it is recoverable and reusable.
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/17/ar ... om-israel/

Iran Builds Drone Aircraft Carrier from Converted Merchant Ship
Work is progressing on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ first aircraft carrier (We should ignore the infamous fake aircraft carrier target barge). The 240 meter long drone carrier is based on a large merchant ship hull. Two of the vessels are expected to be built, the Shahid Mahdavi and Shahid Bagheri.
Like the Iranian Navy’s forward base ship Makran, which is currently transiting across the Pacific, the conversion is being done at the ISOICO shipyard west of Bandar Abbas.
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/13/ir ... hant-ship/

Bayraktar DIHA VTOL [híbrido] Drone Completes Flight Test at 8,000 ft
The Bayraktar DIHA is a mini-tactical UAV-class aircraft capable of functioning in ISR missions.
The drone features automatic cruise, autonomous take-off, autonomous landing, and semi-autonomous cruise flight capabilities.
With a communication range of up to 150 kilometers, its low-fuel-consumption gasoline engine offers a long flight duration.
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/18/ba ... t-8000-ft/

[champi]

"Adquisición de un (1) sistema aéreo pilotado remotamente (RPAS) Clase I Small Híbrido para la UME": https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2023/01/18/ ... 3-1456.pdf

...
12. Adjudicatarios:
12.1) Nombre: DRONETOOLS.
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13. Valor de las ofertas:
13.1) Valor de la oferta seleccionada: 109.850,00 euros.
...

[Truquichan]

Mojave con pods minigun de Dillon Aero



https://dillonaero.com/wp-content/uploa ... -22-18.pdf

[Orel]

Mojave con pods minigun de Dillon Aero

https://external-preview.redd.it/vp2e3w ... c0e80bdaa9

https://dillonaero.com/wp-content/uploa ... -22-18.pdf

No son orientables, pero Poli lleva mucho tiempo queriendo ver drones con ametralladoras

[Orel]

Kuwait has placed a USD 370 million order for 18 Bayraktar TB2
An industry insider told MEE that each Bayraktar TB2 goes for about $5m and each aircraft requires 100 MAM-L smart micro munitions, which together are worth $15m. There is also additional cost for training and command-and-control centres, which varies based on the number of drones purchased. Each centre can control up to six drones.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/air- ... r-tb2-uavs
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/20/ba ... om-kuwait/

Kyrgyzstan has purchased Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)-made Anka UCAS
Known to have supplied Baykar-made Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci UCAVs along with TAI-made Aksungur UCAV before, Kyrgyzstan, with the latest procurement, will now have in its inventory all types of UCAVs produced by TAI and Baykar.
https://www.uasvision.com/2023/01/19/ky ... by-turkey/

New signals intelligence role planned for Dutch Reapers

The Netherlands could acquire three signals intelligence (SIGINT)-gathering pods for its General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, potentially for use from late this year. Announced on 18 January and worth an estimated €50-100 million.

Meanwhile, the defence ministry says its fleet of four Reapers recently passed a combined 1,000 flying hours.
Three of the aircraft are currently based on Curacao in the Caribbean, where a 40-strong detachment of personnel is conducting a test and evaluation activity which is scheduled to run until 1 July.

The Netherlands in June 2022 announced that it will double its Reaper acquisition to eight air vehicles and also proceed with adding the ability to deploy weapons.
Additional equipment plans for the fleet include the proposed acquisition of four communication relay pods and four maritime surveillance radars, the defence ministry notes.

https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/ne ... 40.article

[German] Eurodrone to be equipped with SIGINT capability
The German... awarded a EUR15 million contract to Hensoldt for the development of a signals intelligence (SIGINT) demonstrator, the company announced on 20 January.
The sensor suite will be integrated into a pod for the Eurodrone platform and will be based on the latest “digitisation, electronic beam-steering, and metallic 3D printing” technologies, some of which have already been developed under Hensoldt's ‘Kalaetron' product family.
A Hensoldt spokesperson confirmed to Janes that the SIGINT sensor suite is intended specifically for the German Eurodrone aircraft.
According to the company, Hensoldt will also develop a system architecture to allow for the integration of the SIGINT capability into the future mission system of the Eurodrone. The SIGINT payload will be capable of networking with other platforms, the company added.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/air- ... capability

Israel Aerospace Industries unveils POINT BLANK – a hand-launched hybrid electro-optical guided missile [loitering UAS]

IAI, as prime contractor, has been competitively awarded a multi-million-dollar contract by the Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD) of the US Department of Defense (DoD) to rapidly develop and deliver “ROC-X” a version of the POINT BLANK system that meets specific US DoD requirements for the purpose of increasing the organic precision strike lethality and survivability of small tactical teams. IAI will provide the first prototypes and training to DoD for Operational Testing & Evaluation in FY 23.
POINT BLANK weighs about 15 lbs and is about 3 ft long. The missile can fly at altitudes above 1,500 ft, at a maximum speed of 178 mph (186 kph) and can hover or loiter in the air while the target’s nature and exact position is confirmed prior to attack.

https://youtu.be/pvCcl9isFbs




https://www.iai.co.il/news-media/press- ... ed-electro

Kaman to close K-MAX production line
...citing “low demand and variation in annual deliveries, coupled with low profitability and large working capital inventory requirements”. The line is scheduled to close in the first quarter of the fiscal year (FY) 2023, after a 60-platform production run of the specialised cargo helicopter.
In 2010, the US Marine Corps (USMC) purchased two K-MAXs, modified by Lockheed Martin to be optionally manned and designated CQ-24A. From 2011 to 2014, the USMC deployed the K-MAXs to southern Afghanistan, where they flew thousands of resupply missions to deliver 2.04 million kg of cargo to isolated outposts.
Though retired after their return from Afghanistan, the USMC reactivated the K-MAXs in 2021 “to support future unmanned efforts”, said Kaman at the time.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/air- ... ction-line

Flashback: F-15 Global Strike Eagle Paths
Jan. 18, 2023


https://media.defense.gov/2023/Jan/18/2 ... 2-1012.JPG

...In the mid 1980’s, the Air Force tested the capability of air launching a multistage, anti-satellite ASM-135 missile from beneath an F-15 Eagle in a successful attempt to destroy an orbiting satellite. In 2006, Boeing proposed a similar concept for missile launch, this time using an unmanned variant of the F-15E Strike Eagle with the launch vehicle mounted dorsally instead of ventrally. Boeing designated this variant as the F-15 Global Strike Eagle (GSE). The concept proposed the F-15 GSE as a low-cost demonstration of global strike capability utilizing a variety of munitions including the little-known Common Aero Vehicle (CAV). Defined as a maneuverable, hypersonic reentry vehicle that has the capability of dispensing a variety of payloads inside the atmosphere...

...In the end, the Air Force chose not to pursue this unique air-launched concept, instead the service continues to rely on the use of the venerable Boeing B-52 and B-1B for near-term hypersonic vehicle air-launch capabilities.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fm4ej66agAE ... me=900x900

https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Di ... gle-paths/

[Orel]

Telefónica y Alpha Unmanned Systems colaborarán en 5G y UAVs

...se convierten en socios prioritarios para oportunidades de negocio en comunicaciones de 5G y helicópteros no tripulados en el ámbito de la defensa y seguridad.
Alpha Unmanned Systems (AUS) es fabricante de helicópteros no tripulados con base en Madrid... Telefónica se convierte en el socio prioritario de AUS cuando sus clientes necesiten servicios de comunicación 5G, a la vez que la compañía madrileña lo será de la operadora cuando se requieran helicópteros no tripulados.
Ambas empresas han subrayado la complementariedad de los drones de despegue vertical de Alpha con los sistemas de comunicación 5G de Telefónica para diversas soluciones en el sector de la defensa y la seguridad, con especial foco en las aplicaciones embarcadas.

https://www.defensa.com/industria/telef ... an-5g-uavs


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[Vorlon]

Nueva unidad de Drones, en este caso en la UME.
Lógico por otra parte.

https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diari ... iento-anos


saludos

[Orel]

Me parece bien siempre que antes y para antes que esa iniciativa se haya tomado la de mejorar y adquirir capacidades droneras militares para el resto del ET. Léase capacidades ISR y ofensivo/defensivas mediante drones merodeadores, drones híbridos, drones tácticos armados, sustitución de los Raven...

[pagano]

Me parece bien siempre que antes y para antes que esa iniciativa se haya tomado la de mejorar y adquirir capacidades droneras militares para el resto del ET. Léase capacidades ISR y ofensivo/defensivas mediante drones merodeadores, drones híbridos, drones tácticos armados, sustitución de los Raven...

Curioso que en el especial sobre FUERZA 35 que se acabe de publicar en el boletín extra de TIERRA, en cuanto a los apoyos de fuego, según el diagrama, no se contemplan los UCAVs, relegando los UAVs a meras tareas ISR

[Vorlon]

Me parece bien siempre que antes y para antes que esa iniciativa se haya tomado la de mejorar y adquirir capacidades droneras militares para el resto del ET. Léase capacidades ISR y ofensivo/defensivas mediante drones merodeadores, drones híbridos, drones tácticos armados, sustitución de los Raven...

A estas alturas hay que separar a la UME del ET. No nos lleva a ninguna parte la discusión, y es una unidad que ha venido para quedarse.

Me parece bien siempre que antes y para antes que esa iniciativa se haya tomado la de mejorar y adquirir capacidades droneras militares para el resto del ET. Léase capacidades ISR y ofensivo/defensivas mediante drones merodeadores, drones híbridos, drones tácticos armados, sustitución de los Raven...

Curioso que en el especial sobre FUERZA 35 que se acabe de publicar en el boletín extra de TIERRA, en cuanto a los apoyos de fuego, según el diagrama, no se contemplan los UCAVs, relegando los UAVs a meras tareas ISR

Porque especifica que las capacidades adicionales necesarias para las generar los agrupamientos necesarios estarán encuadrados en mandos especializados (MACA,MING etc),lógico por otra parte porque su escasez y testimonialidad.

saludos