Artificial Intelligence Vehicle: Fundamentals and Applications

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Artificial Intelligence Vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance and carries aircraft ordnance such as missiles, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), and/or bombs in hardpoints for drone strikes is referred to as an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, and colloquially shortened as drone or battlefield UAV. Another name for a UCAV is a combat drone. These drones are often under the direct control of a human operator in real time and exhibit varied degrees of autonomy. Unlike unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicles, unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) can be employed for both drone strikes and gathering intelligence on the battlefield.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Unmanned combat aerial vehicle

Chapter 2: General Atomics MQ-1 Predator

Chapter 3: History of unmanned combat aerial vehicles

Chapter 4: List of unmanned aerial vehicles

Chapter 5: TAI Anka

Chapter 6: NESCOM Burraq

Chapter 7: CAIG Wing Loong

Chapter 8: Drone warfare

Chapter 9: Unmanned aerial vehicles in the United States military

Chapter 10: Baykar Bayraktar TB2

(II) Answering the public top questions about artificial intelligence vehicle.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of artificial intelligence vehicle in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of artificial intelligence vehicle' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of artificial intelligence vehicle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Jul 3, 2023

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Chapter 1: Unmanned combat aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance and carries aircraft ordnance such as missiles, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), and/or bombs in hardpoints for drone strikes is referred to as an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, and colloquially shortened as drone or battlefield UAV. Another name for a UCAV is a combat drone. Unlike unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicles, unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) may be employed for both drone attacks and collecting information on the battlefield.

This kind of aircraft does not carry a living pilot on board.

Lee De Forest, an early developer of radio equipment, and U. A. Sanabria, a TV engineer, are credited with one of the first studies of the notion of the combat drone. Both men worked independently on the project. They first proposed their concept in an essay that was published in Popular Mechanics in the year 1940.

Note that some of them are not aircraft prototypes but rather technology demonstrations (TD) that are not likely to enter service in the foreseeable future.

The Israeli Air Force has modified the Hermes 450 so that it can be used as an assault unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The Hermes 450 is operated by a squadron of Hermes 450s out of Palmachim Airbase, which is located south of Tel Aviv. Each Hermes 450 is reportedly armed with two Hellfire missiles or, according to various sources, two Rafael-made missiles. Israeli, Palestinian, and Lebanese accounts, as well as information from independent sources, indicate that the Israeli attack UAV has seen considerable duty in the Gaza Strip and was employed extensively during the Second Lebanon War. Israel has not denied possessing such a capacity; nevertheless, its strategy to this point has been to not formally affirm either way whether or not it does.

A demonstration program for unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) technology, Taranis was developed in the United Kingdom.

The program is classified as a Strategic Unmanned Air Vehicle (Experimental) (SUAV[E]). It was developed in the United Kingdom.

BAE describes Taranis's role in this context as following: "This £124m, This fully integrated UCAV demonstration with completely autonomous systems and low visible characteristics will be the end product of a four-year effort that is part of the Strategic Unmanned Air Vehicle Experiment (SUAVE) being conducted by the United Kingdom's Government.

The Taranis demonstration will be equivalent in size to the BAE Hawk and will have an MTOW (Maximum Takeoff Weight) of around 8,000 kg, which will place it among the biggest unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the world. It will be stealthy, quick, able to deliver a range of explosives across a number of targets, and capable of protecting itself against manned and other unmanned enemy aircraft. Additionally, it will be able to defend itself against a variety of targets. The first piece of steel was cut in September of 2007, and testing on the ground began at the beginning of 2009. At August of 2013, in the city of Woomera located in Australia, the maiden flight of the Taranis took place. The demonstration will be equipped with two weapon bays on the inside. With the addition of complete autonomy, the goal is for this platform to be able to think for itself with regard to a significant portion of the mission.

Boeing X-45 UCAV (TD)

X-47 Pegasus, manufactured by Northrop-Grumman

J-UCAS, which stands for Collaborative Unmanned Combat Air Systems, was the name given to the joint procurement project for unmanned combat air vehicles that was conducted by the United States Navy and the United States Air Force. DARPA, which stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was in charge of J-UCAS. The J-UCAS program was discontinued as part of the Quadrennial Defense Review in the year 2006. The program was supposed to make use of stealth technologies and enable unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) to be armed with precision-guided weapons like the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) or precision miniature munitions like the Small-Diameter Bomb, both of which are utilized to suppress the air defenses of an adversary. The controllers may have employed real-time data sources, such as satellites, to better anticipate and react to developments on the battlefield and in the surrounding area.

Later on, the program was revamped to become UCAS-D, which is an initiative by the United States Navy to create an autonomous aircraft that can operate from aircraft carriers.

The J-UCAS was discontinued in 2006, and its replacements, the UCAS-D and the Northrop Grumman X-47B, are solely used by the United States Navy. In this industry, Boeing is also developing its X-45N aircraft.

In an article published in 2011 titled New Year Editorial, China's Naval Ambitions, the editorial board of The New York Times argued that [t]he Pentagon must accelerate efforts to make American naval forces in Asia less vulnerable to Chinese missile threats by giving them the means to project their deterrent power from further offshore. This was in response to an article that was published in The New York Times titled China's Naval Ambitions. The first move was to reduce the amount of destroyers of the DDG-1000 class that the Navy plans to buy since its missile defense system is inadequate. The Navy's dependence on short-range manned strike aircraft such as the F-18 and the F-35 may be reduced in favor of carrier-launched N-UCAS aircraft, which would be a more significant one...."

Model 395 of the Scaled Composites

Scaled Composites Model 396

MQ-9 Reaper, manufactured by General Atomics (originally the Predator B)

Eagle/Heron 2, developed by Aurora Flight Sciences and Israel Aircraft Industries

Entry from Lockheed Martin without a name

The United States Air Force has refocused its Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) program to develop long-range strategic bombers rather than medium-range tactical attack aircraft. The Lockheed Martin Polecat prototype serves as the foundation for the technology that underpins the Long Range Strike program.

Bayraktar Kızılelma is a proposed jet-powered, single-engine, low-observable, supersonic, Baykar is working on the construction of a carrier-capable unmanned combat aircraft.

On the 12th of March in 2022, Selçuk Bayraktar, CTO of Baykar announced that the first prototype of the Bayraktar Kızılelma has entered the production line.

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