24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-1.10.1

TACOM - AIR-LAUNCHED MULTI-ROLE UAV

H. Doi
Technical Research & Development Institute, Japan Defense Agency, Japan

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicle, aircraft design, flight test

TACOM demonstrated an air-launched UAV focusing on key technologies to establish a small high-speed UAV system for multiple missions. The key technologies to demonstrate were high speed stealthy configuration, wing expansion, GPS/ADS hybrid navigation, and autonomous target tracking.

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