Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (CUAS) Capability for Battalion-and-Below Operations Abbreviated Version of a Restricted Report (2018) / Chapter Skim
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First, the worldwide availability of relatively inexpensive and significantly advanced sUASs, especially small hobby aircraft, created opportunities for potential adversaries to easily acquire sUASs with impressive and rapidly growing capabilities. Second, these readily available, high-performance sUASs pose a significant potential threat to U.S.
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These latter two points are particularly important because dedicated air defense units within brigade combat teams were withdrawn from Army inventory in the early 2000s after a determination was made that no significant air threat existed to maneuver battalions and lower-echelon units due to the demise of the Soviet Union. The commercial market for small hobby aircraft has increased dramatically over the past 3 years.
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warfighters, especially lightly armored vehicles and dismounted infantry in the U.S.
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that support autonomous flying with no need for a control link or access to GPS. These autonomously guided sUASs can overcome counter-sUAS systems based on jamming radio frequency and GPS signals.
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. Battalion-and-Below Operations Both the Training and Doctrine Command Headquarters and the Fires COE requested that this study focus on battalion-and-below operations to address both the lack of dedicated air defense capabilities within battalions as well as the vulnerability of dismounted infantry and lightly armored vehicles to sUASs.
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. Unless potential threat sUAS capabilities and counter-sUAS efforts are addressed more rapidly, the vulnerabilities of dismounted infantry and lightly armored vehicles to sUAS threats will grow extremely quickly, potentially to the point where force protection standards cannot be met for soldiers in the field.
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Countering sUASs requires the detection, identification, and neutralization of threat sUASs. Detection and identification are very difficult because these sUASs are small, can fly at low altitude, and can have highly irregular flight paths that can range in speed from zero (hover)
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. Included in the sUAS category are , most commercial hobby aircraft (e.g., quadcopters)
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, remote-controlled sUASs to collaborative groups and swarms of fully autonomous sUASs. Single sUAS with Varying Levels of Autonomy Single sUAS with varying levels of autonomy include the following: • Wired or wireless, LOS, remote control.
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. As the number of individual sUASs increases in a single swarm, humans lose the ability to track individual sUASs and begin to perceive multiple sUASs as a single entity (Seiffert et al., 2015)
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. The key to a swarm is that the entire group appears to act as a single unit, but the individual sUASs actually act as distributed, local controllers (Aoki, 1982; Reynolds, 1987; Barca and Sekercioglu, 2013)
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A modified consumer sUAS (i.e., some level of customization) is assembled using sUAS components available in a store or online.
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used to implement the following kill chain; -- Detect, locate, and track potential targets; -- Identify, classify, and evaluate targets as sUASs; -- Engage and defeat (neutralize) sUASs; -- Verify the response through battle damage assessment; and -- Clean up and recovery.
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These terms include the following: • Deep magazine versus stowed kills, • Target acquisition levels, • Track, • Multi-track, • Neutralization, and • Weapons control order. STUDY APPROACH The committee conducted data gathering at all five of its meetings, with the fourth meeting focused on gathering restricted information.
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AUVSI SUAS (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems)
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:e58525. MASD ARCIC (Maneuver, Aviation, and Soldier Division, Army Capabilities Integration Center)
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https://uavchallenge.org/2017/03/19/announcing-the-2017-uav-challenge-airborne-delivery challenge/. Walker, P., S.A.
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