UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES IN THE NAVY: ITS BENEFITS

• Main Authors: GONÇALO CASTANHEIRA ROSA, MARIO MONTEIRO MARQUES, VICTOR LOBO
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Naval Academy Press 2016-06-01
• Series: Scientific Bulletin of Naval Academy
• Subjects: UAV; Navy; missions
• Online Access: https://www.anmb.ro/buletinstiintific/buletine/2016_Issue1/NMS/39-43.pdf

Military investment in UAV research, systems, and applied technologies is increasing, and potential uses for UAVs in civil and military operations are in development. These developments, along with growing scientific interest in UAVs, are fueling commercial interest in the unmanned market. The growing enthusiasm for UAVs is not unfounded. The vehicles offer a unique range of features, most notably ultra-long endurance and high-risk mission acceptance, which cannot be reasonably performed by manned aircraft. Coupled with advances in automation and sensor technologies, and the potential for costs savings, it is understandable that interest in and demand for UAVs is on the rise. Organizations like the Navy have all the benefits to accompany the technological evolution that every day surprises and surpasses us. An introduction or technological evolution that this kind of organizations has already begun to implement is the autonomous vehicles as a mean to an end. This paper describes and lists the advantages of the introduction of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in an organization like the navy and also the missions that such robots can perform and optimize.