Air-Attack.com News :: Joint UAS mission sets mark: First transatlantic flight for RQ-4A Global Hawk
Beyond LOS in International airspace has happened more than once already. As per the link. It just requires knowledge of the system doing the flight and having the correct safety precautions built in. ie lost link logic/autolands etc. Beagle - Please dont say you are comparing some 60s remote control plane to modern UAS aircraft?! The technology is rapidly advancing but until organisations like the CAA catch up I doubt you will see them flying in UK airspace soon. Although it is bad news for putting us out of jobs! |
Fox 4 - The RQ-4 flew above controlled airspace, something not all future UAVs will be designed to do (for good reason). Crossing the Atlantic is one thing (a great achievement) but doesn't really inform the debate on how a UAS might get its associated platform from here, to theatre, via any intervening airspace.
I can't get excited about the drone/UAV argument except to say that I feel the terms UAV and UAS are more useful in a detailed discussion, given that a UAV is a component of a UAS and that the term drone doesn't, in my opinion, facilitate the autonomy discussion. I'm familiar with the way in which Reaper operates in the US and I'm not aware of it flying in un-segregated airspace other than under 'special provision'. Beags proposal to operate UAVs from remote sites such as ASI doesn't allow for how we'd train with them and the future breed of UAS and UCAVs in particular will come with a significant training burden. Sun Who |
Putting them on a ship/C17 and freighting them there is fraught with technological and logistical challenges. |
Gainesy, some of the latest drones are pretty big beasts - you don't just undo a couple of rubber bands to take the wings off (like my old Veron Robot R/C model....:p). Breaking them down for transport and erecting them at the other end would be fairly time consuming - and would require a fair bit of post-assembly testing.
RAF Mount Pleasant would seem to be a good place to base the training for future drone operators - plenty of varied terrain around and an ideal opportunity to work up with the Wesident Wedgiment under realistic exercise conditions. |
That could be interesting. What are the wind limitations on these machines?
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The solution is Cyprus - always has been always will be!
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Beagle
Lost link mode is a little more than... In the event of loss of signal, everything to neutral and throttle to idle - hopefully the model had sufficient natural stability to glide to a soft landing. So it's a bit more than centralise and throttle back, I'm afraid. What are the wind limitations on these machines? Cyprus - too many political sensitivities these days for it to be an option. MPA - Runways not into prevailing winds (thanks to the REs!), weather factor not great and then it isn't exactly replicating Afghanistan is it? Which is why CREECH/HOLLOMAN is so good for MQ-9 Reaper. Now the UK Military have just invested £14m in Stanford Trg Area (STANTA) to build an Afghan Village - opening up Honington to fixed wing flying again???:} Here's a piccy of Lashkar Gah in Norfolk!! http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4BB6E...ut_Unc_024.jpg |
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