Wednesday, July 25, 2012

UK to trial rotary-wing UAS for navy applications


The UK Ministry of Defence plans to complete a capability concept demonstrator (CCD) programme by March 2015 to investigate the utility of equipping the Royal Navy with a rotary-wing unmanned air system (RWUAS) post-2020.
Outlining its interest, in a 24 July contract notification, the MoD says: "Head of Capability Above Water has a requirement to understand whether a multi-role RWUAS can provide utility in the mine countermeasures, hydrography and meteorology, offensive surface warfare and general situational awareness capability areas." Its planned demonstration "will inform future maritime UAS requirements, potentially leading to an acquisition programme in the second decade", it adds.
The CCD programme will include a demonstration and analysis phase, "which is expected to involve a package of physical demonstrations of a vertical take-off and landing UAS and specialist sensors, supported by simulation and synthetic environment experiments", according to the notice.

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