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Aerial Delivery/Resupply
The Special Operations community has been the leading advocate for using UA to delivery leaflets for its
psychological operations (psyops), as well as to resupply its forces in the field. Dispensing leaflets has
traditionally been performed from C-130s, but the altitudes required to ensure aircrew safety tend to
scatter the leaflets over a wide area and reduce their effectiveness. Small SOF teams have to carry all of
their equipment and supplies on their backs when they deploy, and the weights of dense materials (water,
bullets, batteries) greatly reduce their mobility. USSOCOM has explored using UA for both of these
aerial delivery/resupply missions.
To address its psyops mission, USSOCOM developed the CQ-10 SnowGoose unmanned, powered,
guided parasail (see section 2.3.5), capable of delivering 575 lb of leaflets with a 3-hour endurance,
during the successive Wind Supported Aerial Delivery System (WSADS) and Air-Launched Extended
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Range Transporter (ALERT) ACTDs. The CQ-10 became operational in 2005, addressing a USSOCOM
Operation Capability Requirement dating back to 1996 and recurrent IPL priorities. Its six cargo bins can
also be used to deliver resupplies. Although the CQ-10 can take off from the ground and can fly roundtrip
psyops missions, it is primarily a one-way delivery system when used for resupply. A second UA
project, Skytote, was a joint AFSOC and AFRL SBIR effort with AeroVironmnet to develop a returnable
VTOL UA for the resupply mission.
The requirements for the aerial delivery/resupply mission by UA--payload capacity, low signature, and
precision, unaided 'spot' landing capability--differ from the emphasis placed on endurance and sensors for
most other UA. Besides the obvious requirement for a high payload fraction (41 percent of gross weight
for the CQ-10), USSOCOM's needs require a low probability of detection to avoid compromising the
presence of the SOF team in denied regions, all-weather/night operation, precision landing to allow
delivery to small SOF boats or into confined spaces, unaided landing to avoid imposing added training or
compromising emissions, good standoff range to ensure aircrew safety, and low cost to allow for disposal
if one-way resupply is tasked.
In addition to USSOCOM, both the Army and Marine Corps have explored using UA to deliver material
in high threat/risk environments. The Army's Medical Corps examined employing small UA to deliver
urgent medical supplies to forward areas in a recent ACTD (Quick Meds). The Marine Corps converted a
K-Max helicopter to unmanned operation for its Broad-area Unmanned Responsive Resupply Operations
(BURRO) project that tested ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship resupply in 2000-2002. Both projects
demonstrate that, as forces transition to being more mobile and independent (i.e., less tied to traditional
logistics chains), UA offer a viable solution to their accompanying requirement for just-in-time logistics.
Aerial delivery/resupply summary. Covert delivery of supplies into denied areas certainly qualifies as an
ideal mission for UA under the 'dangerous' rubric. The mission requirements to fly low and quietly to
avoid detection over significant standoff distances and land unaided and precisely can be met with
available technologies. Future technology could best be applied to reducing such systems' probability of
detection. In the larger sense, UA could serve as a transformation enabler for the focused logistics needed
by future forces.
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APPENDIX B: SENSORS
OVERVIEW
Sensors now represent one of the single largest cost items in an unmanned aircraft; for example, the MTSA
EO/IR sensor, currently being retrofitted to the MQ-1 Predator aircraft, costs nearly as much as the
aircraft alone. In a similar fashion, today Global Hawk’s RQ-4 Block 10 Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS)
represents over 33 percent of the aircraft’s total cost; with the integration of a multi-int sensor package
into the RQ-4 Block 20 model of Global Hawk, the estimated percentage rises to 54 percent. More
demanding operational information needs, such as identifying an individual from standoff distances or
detecting subtle, man-made environmental changes that indicate recent enemy activity, demand a higher
level of performance than that provided by the current generation of fielded UA sensors. At the same
time the demands placed on UA sensors increase, with commensurate cost increase, UA are also being
employed in those exact situations where UA should be used – where there is significant risk for loss of
the sensor. As the demand for sensor performance continues to grow, coupled with operational risk to the
　
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