Challenges of testing manned and unmanned aerial vehicles with reconnaissance payloads

Dean H. Bergevin

doi:10.1117/12.165533

20 December 1993 Challenges of testing manned and unmanned aerial vehicles with reconnaissance payloads

Dean H. Bergevin

Proceedings Volume 2023, Airborne Reconnaissance XVII; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.165533
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe some challenges of testing aircraft and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) with reconnaissance payloads, and discuss how the challenges are met. The Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) has participated in testing the Electro-Optical-Long Range Oblique Photography System upgrade for the RF-4C aircraft, the Medium Range UAV (MR UAV), the ARGUS remotely piloted reconnaissance UAV, and other recent programs. Lessons learned from the UTTR's wide variety of recent test experience with developmental reconnaissance aircraft and UAVs can be used to guide future development and flight testing of next-generation systems.

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Dean H. Bergevin "Challenges of testing manned and unmanned aerial vehicles with reconnaissance payloads", Proc. SPIE 2023, Airborne Reconnaissance XVII, (20 December 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.165533

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