Originally posted by foga:
any infor about this project?
no classified infor pls. thanks.
From -
http://www.mindef.gov.sg/nps/technical/paper1.html"LALEE
38. A UAV designed for a continuous coverage mission will require the operating cost per flying hour to be very low, below US$1,000, to be affordable. A continuous coverage station will require the flying of about 10,000 hours per year. The capital cost of acquiring the platform and payload, say at US$50m will be overtaken by the operations and maintenance cost after five years of operations. The US Navy is studying the MRE (Multi-Role Endurance) UAV to perform this mission. We have just completed a 3 year long study of LALEE which is an integrated airborne surveillance and communications system designed to provide continuous temporal coverage over a very large area. Providing a task group operating in the littorals with continuous surveillance from the air with this class of UAV will be considerably cheaper than operating current generation of surveillance and communications platforms. The technology is there but whether Navies will to want to invest in this class of UAV will depend on their perceived need for a continuous coverage platform."