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UAS: Unmanned Aircraft System
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UA: Unmanned Aircraft (aircraft only)
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RPA: Remotely Piloted Aircraft
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UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
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GCS: Ground Control Station
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UAS Missions:
- ISR
- RSTA (Recon, Surveillance, Target Acquisition)
- CAS with armed UA
- Targeting PID
- Target Marking
- FMV / Imagery
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Group 1 UAV
-RQ 11B RAVEN
-PUMA
-SWITCHBLADE
- -Tactical level personnel launch, fly and recover
- -ISR / RSTA
- -FMV
- PAYLOAD
- -EO/IR
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GROUP 2 UAS
-SCAN EAGLE
- -ISR
- -EO/IR CAMERA, FMV SIGINT
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GROUP 3 UAS:
RQ 7B SHADOW
- -ISR / RSTA
- PAYLOAD
- -EO/IR Camera, Comms Relay, FMV, LTD/LRF/IR Pointer
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Group 4 UAS:
-MQ 5B HUNTER
- -RSTA / Strike Capable
- PAYLOAD
- -EO/IR Camera, Comms Relay, SIGINT, FMV, LTD/LRF, IR Pointer
- ORDINANCE
- -GBU 44 (VIPER STRIKE)
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GROUP 4 UAS:
MQ-1B PREDATOR
- ISR / CAS
- PAYLOAD
- -EO/IR Camera, (MTS-A), FMV, SIGINT, LTD, IR Pointer, SAR/GMTI
- ORDINANCE
- -AGM-114P (HELLFIRE)
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GROUP 4 UAS:
MQ-1C GRAY EAGLE
- ISR / RSTA / CAS
- PAYLOAD
- -SAR W/GMTI, EO/IR Camera, (MTS-A), Comms Relay, SIGINT, FMV, LTD/LRF, IR Pointer
- ORDINANCE
- -AGM-114P, GBU-44 VIPER STRIKE
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GROUP 5 UAS:
MQ-9 REAPER
- ATTACK / ISR
- PAYLOAD
- -EO/IR Camera, MTS-B, FMV, SIGINT, LTD, IR Pointer, SAR/GMTI
- ORDNANCE
- -AGM-114P, GBU-12, GBU-38
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GROUP 5 UAS
-RQ-4B GLOBAL HAWK
- ISR
- Normal Operating Altitude: 50-60K FT AGL
- PAYLOAD
- -EO/IR Camera, SIGINT, SAR/GMTI, Comms Relay
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UAS ADVANTAGES:
-Long Endurance
-Weaponization
-Can Support Multiple Mission
- -Low Visual Signature
- -Diverse Payloads, sensors, target marking
- -Threat and target standoff
- -Man out of harms way
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UAS DISADVANTAGES:
- -Must deconflict with other A/C
- -Low visual signature (collision avoidance)
- -Loud audible signature at lower altitudes
- -slow speed, defensive reaction and transit to locations
- -susceptible to poor weather, clouds, icing and winds
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Planning Considerations:
- -Most effective at the tactical level
- -UAS operators my not have manned flight experience
- -Operating Altitudes for UA are different as the platform caps vary (METT-TC).
- -Most UAS crews lack JTAC, forward observer, or tactical experience
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CAS INTEGRATION:
Simplest scenario of UAS integration:
-JTAC can use video to build SA of:
-target area that is protected or masked
- -generate target coordinates
- -verbally talk aircrew onto targets
- -task UAS with multiple NAIs, not just one
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Treat armed UAS in the same way as traditional aircraft.
for hellfire shots better to state: "FINAL WEAPONS HEADING" as opposed to ''FAH''
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UAS are High in demand and SHORT in Supply!
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