UAS

Air Vehicle and Ground Segment.

AV + COMMs + AMS + GCS.

(Air Vehicle, GCS/Mission Control, Support Element, Payload, System, Element/Datalinks).

System (COMMS, Data link, Airspace, relay Aircraft), Air Vehicle (AV), Mission Control (GCS), Payload, Support

A UAS for army troops support at platoon level.

A UAV mainly used for ISR mission at short range

A UAV mainly used for ISR mission at short and medium range.

Weight, volume and power on the AV.

Number of different payloads that can be integrated.

Volume, weight and power both on ground and onboard

Security, resistance to jamming and resistance to deception.

Range, bandwidth and low signal to noise.

Worldwide Availability of Frequency.

Resistance to Unintentional Interference.

Low Probability of Intercept (LPI).

A state-of-the-art design including robustness.

The mission characteristics.

The design factors of Reliability and Maintainability.

General Air Traffic.

State aircrafts.

Operational Air traffic.

The fully autonomous UAVs.

The Short Range UAVs manually controlled under VLOS conditions.

The Small Unmanned Aircrafts (SUAs).

Remotely Piloted Aircrafts (RPAs).

Airworthiness, Pilot/Operator qualification, Regulatory Compliance, Technology (C2,S&A), Equipments.

Airworthiness, Technology research and development, and UAS market segmentation

Airworthiness, Governmental funding, and compliance with Operating Standards and Procedures.

Integration and sharing competencies and services to fully become a joint force.

Coordination among assets integrating a larger warfighting community (tactical network).

Use Link-16 as tactical network for multiplatform data exchange.

Develop new generation fighters and preserve existing modernized platforms.

The way for manned and unmanned systems to execute a common misión as an integrated team.

The way to command and control unmanned platforms from manned platforms excluding completely the human intervention. 


The way to develop Artificial Intelligence Systems. 


The way to replace manned platforms by unmanned systems. 


Aeronautical Data

Terrain Model.

Weather forecast.

UAV performances model

Data import & preparation / Airspace information.

UAS operator console layout.

UAS levels of interoperability.

How to divide SW in a safe way in order to host different DAL level SW in the same HW and operating system

Yes, operators cannot command any payload during flight.

No, payload jobs can never be planned due to the unpredictable mission conditions.

No, mission plan does not include payload jobs.

Payload jobs are planned during mission preparation (mission planning) and can be changed and/or commanded during mission execution (mission re-planning)

STANAG 4671 does not contain any ground segment requirement as it is not airborne equipment.

STANAG 4671 defines Designated UAV Operator (DUO) required skills.

STANAG 4671 (UAV Systems Airworthiness Requirements (USAR)) - Subpart I (UAV CONTROL STATION), 72 requirements in these groups: General, Data displayed in the UAV control station, Controls, Indicators and Warnings, Information, markings and placards, Miscellaneous

Safety, Displays and controls, Human Factors and Recording functions.

Take simultaneously different roles depending on their skills.

Take different changeable roles, but only one at a time.

It is acceptable to take more than one role at a time. The roles may change between operators in different flight phases.

Portable.

None of them.

Distributed. In portable or mobile architecture, handover capability may be offered, but it is not compulsory.

Are parts of the payload plan and contain payload events.

Can be activated automatically in case of events like system failures (eg loss of data link).

Can be activated manually by the operator.

Better coverage.

Increased survivability.

Line-of-sight operations.

DS & DBS, RFAs, DOIs, Waivers & PRs. 



AWFL & Airworthiness Declaration (ASA).

Interoperable manned-unmanned, cooperative manned-unmanned, integrated manned- unmanned, convertible manned-unmanned (OPVs)

Cooperative manned-unmanned, interoperable manned-unmanned, integrated manned- unmanned, convertible manned-unmanned (OPVs).

Convertible manned-unmanned(OPVs), Interoperable manned-unmanned, Cooperative manned-unmanned, Integrated manned-unmanned.