Sources: wikipedia, google images, slideshare.

1. DRONES
- ATHARVA CHAVAN

2. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Brief History of UAVs
• Sub-System of UAV
• Design Parameters
• Applications of UAV
i. Disaster relief
ii. Search and rescue
iii. Sports
iv. Armed Attacks
• UAVs of India
• INDIAN UAV compared with U.S.
UAV
• UAV's disadvantages

3. INTRODUCTION
• Drones are also referred as UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• It is an aircraft without an onboard pilot, thus the name
‘unmanned’ aerial vehicle
• It’s flight is either pre-defined or controlled autonomously by
computers or under the remote control of a pilot on the
ground.

4. BRIEF HISTORY OF UAV
• In 1916, A. M. Low’s “Aerial Target” was one of the first
unmanned aerial vehicle
• The birth of U.S. UAVs began in 1959 when United States Air
Force officers were concerned about losing pilots over hostile
territory and they thought of unmanned flights.
• In the year 1964, U.S Navy initiated America’s highly classified
‘Red Wagon’ UAVs into their first combat missions of the
Vietnam war.

5. SUB-SYSTEM OF UAV
• UAV is a system consisting
of different subsystems
• Unmanned aircraft (UA)
• Control system, such
as Ground Control
Station (GCS)
• Control link
• other related support
equipment required as per
the application.

7. DESIGN PARAMETERS
• Aerodynamics
• Payload
• Endurance
• Speed and range
• Communications
• Navigation system
• Launch and recovery

8. CLASSIFICATION OF UAVS
UAVs typically fall into one of six functional categories:
• Target and decoy – providing ground and aerial gunnery a target that
simulates an enemy aircraft or missile
• Reconnaissance – providing battlefield intelligence
• Combat – providing attack capability for high-risk missions
• Logistics – UAVs specifically designed for cargo and logistics
operation
• Research and development – used to further develop UAV
technologies to be integrated into field deployed UAV aircraft
• Civil and Commercial UAVs – UAVs specifically designed for civil and

9. APPLICATIONS OF UAV
• There are many different applications of UAVs. Some of the
applications of UAVs are listed below, while some are explained
further
i. Search and rescue
ii. Disaster relief
iii. Sports
iv. Commercial aerial surveillance
v. Commercial and motion picture filmmaking
vi. Armed attacks

10. DISASTER RELIEF
• UAVs transport medicines and vaccines, and retrieve medical
samples, into and out of remote or otherwise inaccessible
regions
• Drones can help in disaster relief by gathering information
from across an affected area

11. SEARCH AND RESCUE
• During the 2008 hurricanes that struck Louisiana and Texas,
Micro UAVs, such as the ‘Aeryon Scout’, have been used to
perform search for missing persons.
• ‘Predators’, operating between 18,000–29,000 feet above sea
level, performed search and rescue and damage assessment.

12. SPORTS
• Drones were used in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi for
filming skiing and snowboarding events
• Some advantages of using unmanned aerial vehicles in sports
are that they allow video to get closer to the athletes, they are
more flexible than cable-suspended camera systems.

13. ARMED ATTACKS
• Armed ‘Predators’ were first used in late 2001 from bases in
Pakistan and Uzbekistan, mostly aimed at assassinating high
profile individuals (terrorist leaders, etc.) inside Afghanistan
• A Predator based in a neighboring Arab country was used to kill
suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen on November 3, 2002.
This marked the first use of an armed Predator as an attack
aircraft outside of a theater of war such as Afghanistan.

14. UAVS OF INDIA
• Lakshya PTA
• DRDO Nishant
• DRDO Rustom
• Dhaksha
• DRDO AURA
• DRDO Netra
• Barola Aero
• Unmanned Engineeria
• Ulka
• Fluffy
• Pawan UAV
• Kapothaka
• ADE Nishant
• AeroDreamers

15. INDIAN UAV COMPARED WITH U.S. UAV
U.S. Drone- Global Hawk
• Length - 13.5m
• Wingspan - 35.4m
• Height - 4.6m
• Empty weight - 3850kg
• Max Loaded weight -
10400kg
• Maximum speed - 650kmph
• Service ceiling - 20000m
• Endurance - 34hours
Indian Drone – Rustom-H
• Length - 9.5m
• Wingspan - 20.6m
• Height - 6.1m
• Empty weight - 1800kg
• Max loaded weight - 2150kg
• Maximum speed - 225kmph
• Service ceiling - 10668m
• Endurance - 14hours

16. UAV'S DISADVANTAGES
• Innocent Civilian casualties due to inefficiency in recognizing
targets
• UAV system can get hacked
• If contact with the ground station is lost, the vehicle may never
return
• Cannot refuel during flights
• Terrorists activities will increase drastically, if the drone
technology is exposed to wrong people.

17. THE END
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