发布时间：2008.6

摘要

The UAV market has grown rapidly in the last decade providing considerable value strategically and tactically. The global appetite for UAVs shows no sign of abating. Instead, there is a growing indication that countries are increasingly looking for an even greater variety of systems and capabilities, both military and civilian. How and when the civil UAV market will open up? Will it be a significant area for development of the market? Where is development expected in the military market? Which companies lead these developments?

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目录及图表

Executive summary

Chapter 1.0 The Development of Eaves  

1.1 The development of UAVs

1.2 Initial use of unmanned aircrafts

1.3 UAV production growing world wide

1.4 U.S to dominate the market

1.4.1 UAVs assume growing importance  

1.5 UAV definitions and typologies

1.5.1 Air segment

1.5.2 Ground segment

1.5.3 Mission types and design characteristics Figure 1.1: UAV systems: Platform, ground station and communication links

1.5.4 UAV categories

1.5.4.1 Short- to medium-range UAVs

1.5.4.2 Medium Altitude Long Endurance(MALE) UAVs

1.5.4.3 High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) UAVs

1.5.4.4 Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs)

1.5.4.1 U.S. UCAV programmes

1.5.4.4.1.1 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) drones

1.5.4.4.1.2 Various          

1.5.4.4.1.3 Hunter-Killer

1.5.4.4.1.4 UCAV-N

1.5.4.4.2 International UCAV programmes

1.5.4.4.2.1 The U.K.

1.5.4.4.2.2 The European Union

1.5.4.5 Miniature or Micro UAVs

1.5.4.5.1 Heavy investment in the U.S          

1.5.4.5.2 Canadian programmes

1.6 UAV missions

1.6.1 U.S. mission planning assumptions

1.6.2 Growth in two mission areas

1.6.3 Non-aggressive missions

1.6.4 Aggressive missions

1.6.5 Future missions

1.6.6 Security and paramilitary missions

1.6.7 Airlift and support

Chapter 2.0 UAV Challenges

2.1 Costs

Figure 2.1: Costs of selected U.S. UAV platforms

2.1.1 U.S. UAV cost baseline

2.2 Reliability

2.2.1 Reliability through improved components

2.3 Survivability

2.4 Bandwidth requirements

2.4.1 Urban warfare: a challenge

2.5 Operational issues

2.5.1 Field operations reveal problems

2.5.1.1 Interoperability

2.5.1.1.1 U.S. operations reveal deficiencies

2.5.1.1.2 Interoperability issues in NATO, European UAV applications

2.6 Logistical issues

2.6.1 Fuel and battery requirements

2.6.2 Integration into controlled airspace and the COA

2.6.2.1 Air regulations affect both military, civil UAVs

2.6.2.2 Air safety concerns increase for civil UAV usage

2.6.2.3 New rules required

2.6.2.4 Access 5' programme

2.6.2.5 UAV manufacturers seek solution to integration issue

2.6.2.6 Single global protocol needed for UAV operation

Chapter 3.0 Emerging UAV technological requirements

3.1 Unmanned requirements as general technology driver

3.2 UAV technology at a watershed

3.2.1 FILUR

3.2.2 SHARC

3.2.3 Barracuda

3.3 Major technological issues

3.3.1 Control technologies

3.3.1.1 Autonomy the key development

3.3.2 Communications

3.3 Data links

3.3.4 Optical links

3.3.5 Network-centric communications

3.3.6 Airframe

3.3.7 Propulsion

3.3.7.1 Fuel efficiency a propulsion technology driver

3.3.8 Payload technologies

3.3.8.1 Sensors

3.3.8.2 Communications relay

3.3.8.3 Weapons

Chapter 4. 0 Aerospace and defence industrial issues

4.1 Substitutability: unmanned vs. manned aircraft

4.1.1 Direct substitution unlikely 

4.1.2 New opportunities in a competitive market

4.2 UAV national programmes and industrial capabilities

Chapter 5.0 Top 10 UAV Manufacturers

5.1 BAE Systems

5.2 Boeing

5.3 EADS

5.4 Elbit Systems

5.5 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

5.6 Honeywell

5.7 Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)

5.8 Lockheed Martin

5.9 Northrop Grumman

5.10 Sagem SA

5.11 Thales

Chapter 6.0 World UAV Programmes

6.1 Europe

6.1.1 France

Table 6.1: UAV manufactures in France

6.1.1.1 The Neuron programme       

6.1.1.2 Other French programmes

6.1.2 Germany

6.1.2.1 Euro Hawk

6.1.2.2 German UAV missions

6.1.2.3 Germany industry involvement

6.1.3 United Kingdom

Table 6.2: UAV manufacturers in the UK

6.1.3.1 UK UCAV Programmes

6.1.3.2 UK/ US collaboration likely

6.1.4 Italy

Table 6.3: UAV manufacturers in Italy

6.1.5 Sweden

6.1.6 European Union

6.1.7 Russian Federation

6.1.7.1 Russian programmes

6.2 The Middle East

6.2.1 Israel

6.2.2 Iran

6.2.3 Turkey

6.2.4 United Arab Emirates (UAE)

6.3 Asia-Pacific Rim region

6.3.1 Indonesia

6.3.1.1 Pesawat Udara Nir Awak (PUNA)

6.3.1.2 SS-5

6.3.1.3 Smart Eagle 1 and Smart Eagle 2

6.3.2 North Korea

6.3.3 Singapore

6.3.3.1 Blue Horizon

6.3.3.2 Fantail

6.3.3.3 Golden Eagle

6.3.3.4 LALEE

6.3.3.5 Mini Tailsitter

6.3.3.6 PhantomEye II

6.3.3.7 Skyblade II

6.3.3.8 Skyblade IV

6.3.4 South Korea

6.3.5 Taiwan

6.3.5.1 Chungshiang II

6.3.5.2 Ezycopter

6.3.5.3 Kestrel II

6.3.5.4 Thunder Eye

6.3.6  Pakistan

6.3.6.1 Uqaab

6.3.6.2 AWC Mk.I

6.3.6.3 AWC Mk.II

6.3.6.4 Hornet

6.3.6.5 HudHud I/II

6.3.6.6 Shaspar

6.3.6.7 Vector

6.3.6.8  Vision I/II

6.3.6.9  Future plans

6.3.7 India

6.3.7.1 Harpy

6.3.7.2 Heron

6.3.7.3 Nishant

6.3.8   Japan

6.3.8.1 Fuji 10,660 square metre airship

6.3.8.2 Fuji RPH-2A

6.3.8.3 HALE UAV

6.3.8.4 Mambow 4

6.3.8.5 Robocopter 300

6.3.8.6 Yamaha RMAX

6.3.9 China

6.3.9.1 AW-2

6.3.9.2 AW-4 Shark

6.3.9.3 AW-12A

6.3.9.4 ASN-15

6.3.9.5 ASN-104

6.3.9.6 ASN-105B

6.3.9.7 ASN-206

6.3.9.8 ASN-207

6.3.9.9 Chang Hong

6.3.9.10 Harpy

6.3.9.11 M-22

6.3.9.12 NRIST-IZ

6.3.9.13 Solar Bird

6.3.9.14 W-30/W-50

6.3.9.15 WZ-2000

6.3.9.16 Z-2/Z-3

6.3.9.17 Zhanzhongbao

6.3.13 Australia

6.4 Latin America

6.5 Africa

6.6 The United States

Figure 6.1: Recent U.S. UAV programmes

6.6.1 UCAV development

6.6.2 Industry involvement

Chapter 7.0 The civil UAV market

7.1 Potential civil missions

7.2 Current civil UAV operations

7.3 Roadblocks to civil UAV applications

7.4 The European market

Figure 7.1: European civil UAV market forecast 2008-2018

7.5 Achievements in airworthiness certification

Chapter 8.0 Other unmanned vehicles

8.1. Background

8.2 UGVs

8.2.1 U.S. developments

8.2.1.1 Future Combat Systems

8.2.1.1.1 Armed Robotic Vehicle (ARV)

8.2.1.1.2 Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment (MULE)

8.2.1.1.3 Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV) 

8.2.1.1.5 Dragon Runner Mobile Ground Sensor System

8.2.2 Global programmes

8.2.2.1 France

8.2.2.2 Germany

8.2.2.3 Israel

8.2.2.4 United Kingdom

8.2.2.5 Canada

8.2.3 Future UGV applications growing

8.2.3 Potential UGV missions

8.2.4 U.S spending on UGVs and robotics

8.2.4.1 U.S. UGV programmes

8.3 Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs)

8.3.1 United States

8.3.1.1 Long Term Mine Reconnaissance System (LMRS)

8.3.1.2 Mission Reconfigurable UUV (MRUUV)

8.4 Israel

8.5 United Kingdom

8.6 France

8.6.1 Industry engagement

8.7 Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)

8.7.1 USV history and development

8.7.2 Classes of USVs

8.7.2 Classes of USVs

8.7.2.1 X Class (Small)

8.7.2.2 Small Harbour Class (7M)

8.7.2.3 Snorkeler Class

8.7.2.4 Fleet Class (11M)

8.7.3 US at the forefront of USV development

Chapter 9.0 Future prospects and recommendations

9.1 Current limitations

9.2 Large gains in UAV capability expected

9.3 No significant opposition to UAV applications

9.4 Strong market growth expected

9.5 Forecast questionable for UCAV market

9.6 Security threats a key market driver

9.7 UAVs key to network-centric policies Figure 9.1: UAV manufacturing states-Missile Technology Control Regime members and non-members

9.8 WMD sensitivities may affect market development

Chapter 10.0 UAV market forecast

10.1 UAV market estimates 2008-2018

Figure 10.1: UAV market forecasts 2008-2018    

10.1.1 Growth expected in U.S. UAV market Figure 10.2: US UAV budget forecasts 2008-2018 Figure 10.3: US UAV inventory forecast

10.2 Global UAV activity

Companies mentioned in this report

AAI

Aerovironment

Alenia (Finmeccanica)

Allen Vanguard Corporation

Applied Research Associates

Aeronautic Defence Systems

BAE Systems

Boeing

Cyber Flight

CIRA

Dragonfly Air systems

Dassault Aviation

EADS-Dornier

EMT

EADS-Germany

Elbit Systems

Euro MC

Finmeccanica

Foster Miller

FanWing

Flying Robots

Galileo Avionica

General Atomics

Giat

Gates Techno

Honeywell

Kestral Aerospace

Israel Aircraft Industries

Integrated Systems

iRobot

Internet Aviation Supply

Lockheed Martin

Maggit

Micro Drones

Northrop Grumman

Nim Bus

Qinetiq

Rafael

Ratheon

Rhinmetall Defence Electronics

Saab

Singapore Technologies

Sagem SA

SkyShips

Selex Galilio

SAIC

Thales

Sirehna

Survey Copter

United Defense

Tasuma

U-Tacs

UTRI

Warrior

Vough Airdraft

V-TOL Aerospace

Yamaha