Global UAV business list
Drone “big bang” times
UAVs, as its name suggests, the unmanned aircraft. From early 20th century emergence of the aircraft, due to the safety of aircraft, when people have put forward the idea of drones. In the 1930 of the 20th century, the United Kingdom will Ferrell company “Queens” double fixed-wing aircraft into unmanned target drone, opened the prelude of pilotless aircraft in aviation history.
For more than a century, UAV applications, from a military development to ongoing civil war, from the scientific exploration and development of photography, from disaster relief development and environmental monitoring. Now, whether it is military or civilian drones are no substitute for action.
Under the influence of business model innovation in the Internet age and service requirements, along with the development of technologies, UAVs have become the most promising, one of the fastest growing industries, we will usher in a drone of “big bang”.
Coincidentally, shortly before singer Wang Feng had a use in the proposed four-axis aircraft, inadvertently helped popularize a technology innovation company called big, once again aroused the concern of the civil unmanned. People finally know, always feel mysterious drones, originally closer to our daily lives so close.
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At present mainly in size and development-oriented information and commercial UAV based on both the military, to meet some fans and attention is just the beginning.
The “coolness” of UAV
Earlier drone used as target drones, without with modern uses, this is not much to do here. For modern UAVs, we use is divided into military and civil categories.
Military drones are generally divided into, reconnaissance, attack aircraft, fighter aircraft, “justice one” machine. Among them, the reconnaissance and “justice one” has been used in modern military warfare. We know of the 2003 Iraq war, is the United States drone collective appearance. Precision strikes by remote-controlled drones to target the ability to make us significantly reduce the loss of pilots and aircraft. So in modern military warfare and drill, countries are focusing on development of unmanned combat aerial.
Today in the military field, the world leader is UAV United States and Israel. United States, Northrop Grumman? Grumman, and Lockheed? Martin, Boeing’s three unmanned aerial vehicle research and development the company has the world’s most advanced UAV technology, to create a global Hawk, X-47B, phantom Ray unmanned combat aircraft of the world renowned. Comparable only with Israel Aerospace industries, makes “Hunter” aircraft. Followed by Europe and China, the concerted effort of European countries in recent years, produced a “neuron”, “Thor” and other products with high performance UAVs, nowadays, European countries are trying to develop new types of unmanned aircraft, trying to catch up with on technology Israel. China’s rising star as unmanned aircraft, the pace of development is very rapid, in 2014, China sent by China to develop and produce the BZK005 unmanned aerial photographing of the Diaoyu Islands, has caused States to focus on Chinese UAV development. Today, military drones army seven in United Assembly.
Global Hawk UAV
China-made unmanned “pterodactyls”
Speed of development of drone technology allows drones into everyday life becomes more simple. World Internet giants joined the UAV market competition. Nowadays, all over the world, drones have been applied to the police force, the city administration, agriculture, geology, climate, electricity, emergency rescue and disaster relief, video photography, and many other industries. Unmanned aircraft industries in the world, is undoubtedly the best of the domestic UAV. In recent years, civilian drones also have very good development, emerged many private enterprises engaged in unmanned machine manufacturing, previously the big innovation in 2014, total revenue of nearly 3 billion, global UAV market share accounted for by 70%. In the field of UAVs manufactured, domestic manufacturers have been preoccupation to world markets.
Both military and civilian use, although the drone has been recognized all over the world. But it should also be recognized, now drone also has certain limitations.
Wang Feng with big drone
UAV development limited
United States, and Israel military drones, such as the advanced country has long since put military drones into actual combat, but it is not difficult to find, in actual combat, military drones still exposes a lot of problems and weaknesses, which is what today’s unmanned aerial vehicle research limitations.
First of all, while carrying out tasks in the field of UAV, but its operators are often more than the number of pilots who manned fighter needs, 1 of them are responsible for flight, 1 is responsible for handling the sensor, 1 are assigned to military intelligence liaison. Another 2 people must be deployed to a forward airfield, on the drones take off and land during the Visual radio equipment to guide them. Compared with the traditional fighter, although it will reduce the casualty rate, but the relative increases in personnel costs.
Second, endurance and mobility is also one of the weaknesses of modern military UAVs. Modern military UAVs carrying the whole weight of ammunition, and carrying hidden system and sensor case, is unable to do trans-oceanic combat. That makes military UAV coverage was very limited. Due to carrier, and carrier landing of UAV technology development, this weakness has been temporarily resolved.
Third, unmanned bomb load and automatically hitting will be the future focus of UAV development. In 1998, during the Gulf war, United States Air Force operated drones have repeatedly to enemy target error of judgement and cause big loss. Due to the bomb-carrying capacity limits, drone is still not debut in modern war. These limitations are due to UAV technology is still further in the inquiry and military drones to replace conventional manned aircraft involved in the battle, is still some way off.
X-47B UAV
Civilian unmanned platforms, due to the requirements of daily production in the use of drones is low, there are relatively few limitations. Even so, drone is still not universal in many of our lives still has its limitations.
In daily life, photography, environmental monitoring, geological exploration and other requirements for UAV is not as high as the military. Low altitude and to a lesser extent, short battery life is characteristic of most commercial UAV. Nowadays, with the development of technology, civilian unmanned flight altitudes of up to 8000 m above the flight range up to 10 km or more in diameter, battery life of up to 30 hours or more. Although available in commercial UAV has many facilities in place, but is also accompanied by the corner.
It is well known that, in civil aviation during the flight, there any deviations will be faced with unpredictable consequences. While civilian drones have hit civil aviation regional flight range, flight clearances and flight policy became the biggest factor restricting civilian drones.
National management of the drone is still at an early stage. National UAV flight location, height, weight, safety provisions do not yet have good management experience. Internally, for example, rolled out in 2013 interim provisions on the administration of civilian unmanned aerial system pilots noted that the weight of 7 kg or less micro-UAVs, flight range in Visual horizon within a radius of 500 meters, the relative height of less than 120 meter range, no license management, but it should be avoided as far as possible remote-controlled aircraft into the high air space. We can see that China is quite strict in supervision of civil unmanned aerial, is also a point of ensuring citizens ‘ personal safety and privacy concerns. By contrast, with many flying licenses of private aircraft of the United States for the UAV management becomes more difficult, to date, there are only 6 Hollywood production house with Google, Amazon has allowed firms to UAV flight test, in addition to the 8 companies of UAV flight parameters are also subject to the relevant provisions.
No route exists for a UAV said commercial UAV flight range in a specific area within the open limit certain airspace, as well as unmanned aerial vehicle models may be the way to legalize civil unmanned future and open significant opportunities for UAV market.
Commercial UAV applications
Breakthrough limited prospects “in the future” drones
Indeed, military drones are technically there are certain limitations, but judging from the history of UAV development, we can conclude that these technical limitations will over time be one by one the break.
From the objective on the device, from future military UAV hardware improvement in four areas. First of all, from low-altitude to high altitude, long endurance, short-time development, future military UAV in flight parameters, closer to traditional military aircraft. Second, the development towards stealth drone. Stealth fighter will not only benefit loss rate of aircraft mission success and can reduce the drone. Third, from the direction of real-time tactical reconnaissance in the air early warning. Finally, military drones in the air fighting development. In the face of complex battlefield environments can try to reduce their losses, and also through its own mobility to provide sustainable deterrent blow.
Intelligent drones and other unmanned vehicles, operators of final demand is of intelligent vehicles. For unmanned intelligence requirements and different from other intelligent vehicles. In practice, the situation is complex, unexpected situation occurs frequently, due to technical factors, currently fielded unmanned, automatic analysis of the war situation handling, accurate control of the flight, as well as against the target of judgment, has not reached a satisfactory level. So, intelligent combat UAV unmanned combat high will be the ultimate goal of future military UAV development. This will overturn the people’s awareness of intelligence arm, will fundamentally change the way future wars.
Comparing military UAV objective fundamental changes on the device, civil unmanned future development focus on the subjective use of UAVs and safety aspects. First, drones appeared after the sharp downward trend in prices, ordinary small civilian drones are more likely to be used as a monitoring tool at the same time, security cannot be guaranteed. For security and privacy reasons, the world hasn’t civil unmanned fully opened up their regulatory policies. Second, already described above, due to still not have the ability to sense and avoid objects, in the airspace regulation, how to incorporate UAV flight airspace, national norms on the difficulties encountered. Therefore, many countries have a different limit to commercial UAV flight, this civilian UAV development forms the inevitable obstacles. But seen from the pilotless aircraft’s airworthiness history, States pilotless aircraft airworthiness has been actively promoting national industrial sector. In the future, commercial UAV development not limited with the objective of improvement of technologies and equipment, civilian drones and subjective degree of awareness of regulatory policy is promoting the popularization of civil unmanned ultimate factors.
Future UAV designs
Anyway，可以说无人机只是一个开始，今后还有很多有意思的事情待关注、研究，创业者崛起，使用者崛起，应用或使用方式越来越多样化。