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AirBorn Recon. Long-Range, Low-Altitude UAV swarms for Battlefront support. Current UAV’s. “Worldwide expenditures of UAVs will grow from $6.6 billion annually to $11.4 billion annually in the next 10 years” -Report, Teal Group, published April 12, 2012 UPI.com.
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AirBorn Recon Long-Range, Low-Altitude UAV swarms for Battlefront support
Current UAV’s “Worldwide expenditures of UAVs will grow from $6.6 billion annually to $11.4 billion annually in the next 10 years” -Report, Teal Group, published April 12, 2012 UPI.com • Big, expensive, High-altitude UAV’s • Permit extended surveillance over a wide area to support battle operations • $4.5 Million/unit $3,234 per hour operation Predator data • Small, UAV’s with limited range/endurance • Used to check for obvious threats in out-of-sight areas • Cost thousands of dollars
“The Achilles heel of any of these systems is power” –Dr. William Nothwang, Army Research Lab, Interview • Limitations of current small UAV’s • Require special training and equipment • Require constant attention of operator • Can’t fly long enough to “watch the back” of arriving war-fighters • Provide only visual data over a small area
The Solution Swarms of Mortar/Artillery-launched, lighter-than-air UAV’s Extended surveillance over wide areas Can be deployed to distant targets with minimal operator attention Triangulation of combatants through Sound Ranging Gas Generator (Hydrazine) Integrates with Existing Equipment and Training
