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Potential for greater survivability by reducing signatures through optimal shaping not possible with
traditional manned aircraft design and through greater maneuverability (beyond human tolerance) These attributes can be used to improve operational effect, or reduce cost while maintaining the same level of operational effect. The Strategic Planning Guidance specifically directs acceptance of “…increased risk and/or undertake initiatives to achieve substantial savings…” However, before UA can be used to improve effect or lower cost in the strike/SEAD mission area, there are several challenges that must be met:
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Rules of engagement (ROE) considerations that may require the intervention of a human operator.
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The prosecution of advanced integrated air defense systems (IADS) targets and time critical targets through an as yet unperfected automatic targeting and engagement process or by a human operator outside the vehicle.
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The integration, interoperability, and information assurance required to support mixed manned/unmanned force operations.
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Secure, robust communications capability, advanced cognitive decision aids, and mission planning.
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Adaptive autonomous operations and coordinated multi-vehicle flight.
Strike, persistent strike and armed reconnaissance missions may be against heavily or a lightly defended targets. The level of threat determines which UA attribute is most influential in the design. If the requirement is to engage and defeat lightly defended targets, then a conventionally designed UA would stress payload and aero performance to achieve the most efficient “kill” capability. The ability to provide a persistent threat against adversaries will stress endurance as a design feature in the lower threat environments. If prosecution of highly defended targets is required, then a design stressing survivability is paramount, and often will trade away payload and aerodynamic performance to achieve greater certainty of success against highly defended targets. This trade is required to ensure “anti-access” targets (targets that deny use of conventional joint force assets) are eliminated early in a campaign so the Joint Force Commander can use the full range of forces at his disposal and achieve desired effects as swiftly as possible. (Strategic Planning Guidance: “Swiftly defeat adversaries in overlapping military campaigns while preserving for the President the option to call for a more decisive and enduring result in one of the two.”)
UA would be used against heavily defended targets for two reasons. First, a UA can theoretically achieve levels of survivability that manned aircraft cannot. Signature control without the need for human caretaking becomes less difficult, and maneuverability could be increased beyond human tolerances should that be required to enhance survivability. The design driver for this case is survivability, however it is achieved. If such survivability measures fail, the use of a UA removes the risk of losing a human life.
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