1. Military use of Drones!
by, Scott Amack

2. Agenda
History
Current State of Drones
Future State of Drones

3. History British Kites (1806) Austrian Balloons (1849) Civil War (1863)
Lord Thomas Cochran of the HMS Pallas
Dropped propaganda leaflets on the French coast
Austrian Balloons (1849)
Battle with Venice using tethered balloons
Contributed to the collapse of the Venetian Revolt
Civil War (1863)
Patents issued for unmanned aerial bombardment balloon
Confederate army want to annihilate General Grants army
Consensus was that these forward thinkers were crazy

4. History Nikola Tesla (1898) Aerial Torpedo (1938)
Remote Control Patent
Remote boat bomb
Aerial Torpedo (1938)
U.S. Navy Developed
Curtiss "N2C-2“ Remote Controlled Drone
Successful test attack on destroyer 20 miles away
Japanese Balloons (1944)
Fire Balloons carried explosives
Attack on U.S. soil
6 confirmed deaths

5. History Radiation Testing (1946) MQM-57 Falconer (1955)
Remote Control B-17 Flying Fortress
Launched from ground control
Piloted remotely from another aircraft
MQM-57 Falconer (1955)
Remote controlled reconnaissance drone
Carried camera payload and flares for night time
30 minute flight time
Model Ryan 147A/B (Firebee) (1962)
Recon flights over China and Vietnam
Used for SAM detection
Chinese shot down 5 drones
U.S. adopted “no comment” policy on drone usage

6. History Israel vs. Syria (1982) DARPA Amber Project (1984)
Electronic Decoys
Electronic Jammers
Resulted in minimal loss of life
DARPA Amber Project (1984)
First inverted v-tail drone
Used for Reconnaissance and ELINT (electronics intelligence)
Remote Cruise Missile
Predator (1994)
Developed using information learned from Amber Project
First mission Spring 1995 Albania
Initially created for reconnaissance

7. History Reaper (Predator B) (2001)
Designed for long endurance high altitude surveillance
Carries 15 times the payload of the predator
1st hunter-killer drone for tactical combat
moved from using UAVs primarily in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance roles before Operation Iraqi Freedom, to a true hunter-killer role with the Reaper

8. Current State Reaper Added capability for increased payload
Increased fuel capacity for 37 hour endurance
Built in suppression of air defenses
Electronic Jamming
Integration of Gorgon Stare “Video Like” surveillance
New York Air National Guard unit fully transitioned from F-16 pilots to Reaper pilots
The Reaper has a range of 3,682 mi (5,926 km) and an operational altitude of 50,000 ft (15,000 m)

9. Current State Global Hawk Predator
Used as replacement for U2 spy plane
Wide area search imagery
High resolution spot mode
Predator
Used to kill prominent Al-Qaeda Operatives
195 in operation (2009)
70 lost to air crashes
55 lost to operator error, equipment failure, or weather
4 have been shot down
11 lost to operational accidents on combat missions

11. Future State of Drones Micro Air Vehicles Long Term Usage
Blend into Environment
Silent Monitoring
Work in Swarms

12. References http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/rpav_home.html