For an informed debate, see:
CAP 722: Unmanned Aircraft System Operations in UK Airspace - Guidance | Publications | CAA
and
Saab co-ordinates European MIDCAS development project | Shephard Group
and for those of you with access to it, Project CHURCHILL.
This is an interesting and complicated topic. It's a necessary debate for the useful future of Bril Mil PLC and should be considered in light of the fact that commercial spend on UAS is about to double to......$4.5 billion.
Keen to hear peoples views on this as I have a vested interest.
Sun.
Edited to add:
Beags, a lot of effort is being expended on the ability to 'sense and avoid' non-squawking and difficult to detect traffic. Most of it revolves around quite wizzy radars and EO systems. The tricky bit however, isn't the sensors, but the ability of the platform to make its own decisions. Latency in downlinks makes it
very tricky to keep the operator in the loop for this type of function. As I said, interesting topic.
Sun