Asad Qayyum Babar

Understand the term Drone Manufacturing of Drone The Uses of Drone The Drone Operating System

Launch & Landing, Surveillance & Action General information about Predator B

Learning Objectives

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of navigator, or pilot (in the military UAVs called combat system officer) on the ground or in another vehicle.

What is Drone ?

Manufacturing of Drone

More advanced drone are made from large, old – anti – ship missiles which had their war heads removed. Obsolete jet & propeller powered aircraft have also been modified into remote controlled drones, but such modifications are costly.

Uses of Drone

Drone Operating SystemThe launching of a target drone, used as a weapon carrier to attack on a required target is controlled of in commanding centre. It is monitored by commanding officers called Combat System Officers in the operating room. These pilot sensor operators in the operating room send commands to satellite (to fly the drone via satellite link). Satellite will receive command and then it further sends to aircraft. The heat detectors present in the aircraft detects warm & heat of living bodies. After finding and identifying, it automatically fixes & tracks the ground targets.

Several drones with different sensors and weapons could operate together to locate potential targets.

The drone could engage the target themselves immediately or

could call in autonomous land units to confirm the

identification before an attack.

Launch & Landing

Surveillance

Action

Predator B

General information