ASCUA escribió:Que tienen no, que tendrán algún día... porque hoy por hoy (y tampoco en un futuro mas o menos cercano), que yo sepa, no hay UCAVs capaces de igualar las prestaciones no ya de un Raptor o un Tifón, de un F-16, por ejemplo...
Porque digo yo que aunque sean algo mas baratos (ya veremos cuanto) habrá que diseñarlos para que tengan unas capacidades de combate comparables a las de un caza actual y parecida capacidad de supervivencia en el campo de batalla. Y eso significa que debieran tener la misma (como poco) carga de pago, el mismo alcance y la misma capacidad de autodefensa frente a las amenazas que los aviones a los que sustituyen...
Yo eso no lo veo por ningún lado...
Lo que si parece es que ciertas misiones, donde no se necesita un purasangre prestacional, van a empezar a ser cosa exclusiva de esos UAV/UCAV...
Complementarios si, sustitutos todavía no...
Hola,
Es cierto que hoy por hoy no hay UCAVs en el mercado que sean capaces de sustituir un F-16 o un F-18, pero los proyectos en curso són muchos (Neuron, Taranis, barracuda, Avenger, X-45/47, etc..)
En ciertos roles, los UAV/UCAV yá efectuan misiones especificas, que hoy dia están (o estuvieron) encomendadas a aeronaves como los F-16 o F-18, con mayor efectividad y a menor coste. Tampoco creo se trate de sustituir a los aviones per sé, o de igualar las prestaciones a un F-16, sino de tener aeronaves que cumplan misiones especificas con mayor efectividad y menor riesgo.
Otra manera de aproximarse al tema de los UCAVs es modificar los futuros, o actuales cazas para poder ser controlados remotamente desde otros cazas bi-plaza, como ya se ha probado con el gripen, y en un futuro con los JSF.
Unmanned F-35 in the works
With today's fly-by-wire technology, pilots essentially tell the aircraft's computers what they want the aircraft to do through the throttle, stick, and rudder, but the computers decide which control surfaces to move and how much. First seen in production on the F-16, fly-by-wire is now incorporated on virtually all new fighter and attack aircraft in some way. The Lockheed F-35 Lightning II is no exception with a full fly-by-wire flight control system.
With computers moving the control surfaces, an unmanned version of the F-35 seems a natural fit. In a briefing by Lockheed Vice President Frank Mauro, it was announced that an autonomous version of the F-35 has been in planning for two years according to an article in the Washington Post. According to Mr. Mauro, the concept is to build F-35s which could be either operated as either manned or unmanned aircraft to enhance the flexibility with which the aircraft could be employed.
Other published articles indicate that the unmanned F-35 project has been funded in house and developed independently of the U.S. military requirements for the aircraft, giving Lockheed an upper hand if any customer country requested such a capability. While there have been no public announcements of actual integration of unmanned capability into any of the F-35 test aircraft, the plans have been made.
The possible employment scenarios for unmanned aircraft continue to grow. Some see unmanned F-35s operating as extensions of manned aircraft with the unmanned aircraft carrying more ordinance to the target with several "drones" flying alongside each manned fighter. Such tactics would increase the flexibility of the unmanned aircraft and would conceivably increase the survivablilty of pilots in the manned aircraft by allowing the use of the unmanned aircraft as armed reconnaisance assets which would share sensor information by datalink. Others see unmanned aircraft flying their missions on autopilot from takeoff to landing.
http://www.f-16.net/news_article1924.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01288.html
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/saas/lewis.pdf
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