Unmanned Jabs

[Marty_d]

Who was it kept saying the Australian Defence Force should invest in fleets of Jabiru drones?

Looks like they listened...

Autonomous aircraft boost logistics reach

WWW.DEFENCE.GOV.AU

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Air Force is developing autonomous aircraft to strengthen logistics across northern Australia.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Marty_d

[T510]

I don't know why they didn't just buy one of the conversion kits available to convert aircraft to unmanned

[onetrack]

This is interesting -

 

QUOTE:

"For autonomous logistics to become a reality, these robotic aircraft must be able to navigate crowded or contested airspace as safely as a human pilot. This is the mission of Project Arena.

Partnering with Sydney-based company Mission Systems, JDI is developing Boobook-DAA, a compact detect-and-avoid radar.

Boobook-DAA functions as the aircraft’s 'eyes', replicating a pilot’s ability to detect and avoid other airspace users.

The radar is designed to detect other aircraft in the sky, day and night, out to at least 7km."

 

I wonder what the accuracy is like, at 7kms? Could the system start evasive action at 7kms out, or would it take until the other aircraft was only a km away before it initiated evasive action?

An oncoming RPT aircraft doing 250kts would only take 54 seconds to cover that 7kms. You wouldn't want any lag or delay in identifying another aircraft. And what about wedgetail eagles diving on a JabX from up on high?

[T510]

I tend to disagree with that quote, Airservices is already working on their version of a solution (right or wrong) to incorporate unmanned aircraft in to civilian airspace. From what I have seen they are leaning heavily towards the "positive separation" model as opposed to the "detect and avoid"

 

Airservices have released all the abbreviations, FIMS (Flight Information Management System) is being developed at the moment to tie their UTM (UAS (Uncrewed Aerial System) Traffic Management)system into their "OneSky". Which to quote Airservices is "the most complex transformation of air traffic management in Australian aviation history. It’s a partnership between Airservices and the Department of Defence, replacing existing air traffic management systems with an advanced integrated system known as the Civil Military Air Traffic Management System (CMATS)"

 

Surely all these changes will result in a smooth integration of uncrewed and crewed aircraft with no teething problems or confusion🙄