Unmanned aerial vehicle "drone"

Accession History Construction Military UAV UAV civil

Accession• Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) "drone" - an aircraft without

crew on board. Designed for air shooting and real-time monitoring of ground objects.

History • In 1899, Nikola Tesla has developed and demonstrated a miniature

radio-controlled boat. In 1910, inspired by the success of the Wright brothers, a young American military engineer Charles Kettering in Ohio suggested using aircraft without a man. According to his plan-driven clockwork device to a location it had to drop their wings and fall like a bomb on the enemy.

Construction• To determine the origin of the Earth and the speed of modern

UAVs tend to use satellite navigation receivers (GPS and GLONASS). The angles of orientation and overload determined using gyroscopes and accelerometers.

Classification

There are drones:•unmanned free; •unmanned automatic; •unmanned remotely piloted vehicles (RPV).There are the following classes of devices:•"Micro" - weighing up to 10 kg, the flight time of about 1 hour and altitude of 1 kilometer; •"Mini" - weighing up to 50 kg, the time of flight of a few hours up to 3-5 km; •medium ("MIDI") - up to 1000 kg, the time of 10-12 hours and a height of 9-10 km; •heavy - with altitude up to 20 kilometers and 24 hours of flight time or more.

Military UAV

• Unmanned aerial vehicles, capable of carrying a combat load and carry out the destruction of land, air or above / underwater targets. The first drone strike appeared in the 1950s.

UAV civil• Historically, that the original application was defined as a

combat UAV. However, since the early 2000s, began to assume enormous importance "micro-drones" are not developed for the military and purely civilian purposes.

For example:• Control of fire safety;• Mapping;• Air photo and video.