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U.K. Sets Out UCAV and UAV Research

From Aviation Week and Space Technology 2005 June

U.K. Sets Out UCAV and UAV Research

Aviation Week and Space Technology, Jun 19, 2005

STRATEGIC REDIRECTION

Britain's moves to completely overhaul its long-range airpower road map will build on classified research efforts being carried out by BAE Systems.

However, because of the secrecy surrounding some of the underlying research, British government and industry officials are reluctant to discuss the change in any detail.

The ministry is breaking up its Future Offensive Air System (FOAS) work and replacing it with the Strategic Unmanned Air Vehicles (Experiment), or Suave, to meet its deep-strike and surveillance needs.

Suave will build on classified work on low-observable and very LO unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and UAVs. BAE Systems' Nightjar research covers UCAV and UAV applicable technologies (AW&ST June 13, p. 44). LO airframe design and testing are underway within the company. CEO Mike Turner says BAE is working on a number of "black" UCAV and UAV-related research efforts, but declines to elaborate.

"THE SUAVE IPT [integrated project team] is responsible for directing the work required to establish the potential of UAVs in a variety of roles in the deep, so that the U.K. can make informed decisions on procurement options by 2009-10," says a defense ministry official.

Also propelling the work is lack of assured access at the industrial level to ongoing UCAV activities. While the U.K.

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