STUAS

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STUASSmall Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (US DoD)
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By 2020, STUAS should account for half of all UAVs in the Navy's inventory.
Promising outlook for Navy's unmanned aviation
For the Navy, STUAS will provide persistent RSTA support for tactical
U.S. unmanned aerial systems
STUAS, which is being developed by Insitu, will accommodate a 75-pound payload--a drastic improvement over its predecessor's 5-pound limit.
Aerial drones going mainstream in naval special Warfare
Possible future Stuas developments include the addition of a magnetic anomaly detector to find submarines.
Sea-watching drones
In 2005 the US Marine Corps validated an urgent operational need for a Small Tactical UAS (Stuas) or Tier II to replace the contractor-supplied ScanEagle service.
Full spectrum dominance: the United States has established a massive lead in unmanned aircraft, and (despite budgetary cuts) is pressing ahead with new designs that will fly indoors like an insect, or perch on a roof and stare like a bird, or deliver supplies to frontline troops, or remain in the air virtually indefinitely. Most significantly, America is expanding its lead in stealthy strike drones
Rockwell Collins has revealed that it is to be the flight control system provider to Boeing/Insitu for the US Navy's small tactical unmanned air system (STUAS) program.
Company Watch - Boeing
In spite of a loss on the US Navy's small tactical unmanned aerial systems (STUAS)/Tier II contract last month, Raytheon remains confident the Killer Bee will find a customer.
Company Watch - Raytheon
Killer Bee 4: The lighter US Navy/Marine Corps Tier II or Stuas (Small Tactical UAS), now part of Group Three, is required for service in 2011.
Practical lessons ... and remedies
This new contract (again with contractor personnel operating the systems) is expected to bridge the gap to the US Marine Corps's new Tier II, which the US Navy refers to as the Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (Stuas) and is due for initial operational capability in FY11.
United States fly high: while the United States and the Soviet Union were the first to re-explore uncrewed aircraft technologies since the second world war in the 1960s, notably through Ryan and Tupolev (but with mixed results in both cases), Israel was really the first nation to turn the discipline into a viable proposition in the 1980s, before being overtaken in terms of market size by the United States
Raytheon In spite of a loss on the US Navy's small tactical unmanned aerial systems (STUAS)/Tier II contract last month, Raytheon remains confident the Killer Bee will find a customer.
Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America
The US Marine Corps' new Tier II is referred to by the US Navy (which will also operate the type) as the 'Small Tactical UAS' (Stuas).
Going vertically: a drone that can take off and land vertically is preferable not only for naval users but also for front-line troops. As in the case of manned aircraft, vtol performance means above-normal power and thus below-normal fuel, hence payload, range and endurance are penalised
Boeing The US Navy has awarded its much-anticipated small tactical unmanned aircraft systems (STUAS) contract to the Boeing/Insitu Integrator, having had the decision in a holding pattern since last October.
Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America
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