{"id":135454,"date":"2022-12-30T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135454"},"modified":"2022-12-30T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:47:27","slug":"the-u-s-navy-conducts-drone-delivery-to-moving-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135454","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Navy conducts drone delivery to moving warships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Navy conducted a drone delivery demonstration at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. They flew unmanned aerial systems carrying cargo that weighed under 50 pounds consisting of 90% of the deliveries pushed through the Navy’s logistics system. These drones were tested for their ability to do ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore, and shore-to-ship transits.<\/p>\n

From the EurAsian Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The demonstration was carried out at an event at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in St. Inigoes, Maryland, according to the press release issued by the NAWCAD on December 21.<\/p>\n

It involved multiple unmanned aerial systems (UAS) delivering cargo weighing less than 50 pounds (22.68 kilograms), constituting 90% of navy logistics deliveries.<\/p>\n

Skyways Air Transportation, Inc. and Martin UAV developed the drones used in the demonstration. During the demonstration, they conducted ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore, and shore-to-ship flights over 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers).<\/p>\n

These drones are capable of vertical-take-off-and-landing from most naval ships and therefore do not need dedicated equipment for launch and recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see an increase in manned and unmanned logistics. For the Marine Corps, the Commandant is enthusiastic about where we are going with unmanned logistics and is beginning conversations about operations and contested environments. The Navy is currently identifying areas where unmanned logistics would be a critical enabler to operations at sea. The Blue Water Maritime Logistics UAS is a great demonstration of this emerging requirement,\u201d said Col. Victor Argobright, PMA-263 program manager.<\/p>\n

Historically, logistics-related issues like electronic parts or assemblies have often been the cause behind warships moving to non-mission capable or partially mission capable status, according to the data from the US Navy\u2019s casualty reports.<\/p>\n

Unmanned Drone Cargoes, Economical & Efficient?<\/b><\/p>\n

Currently, tactical aircraft like the H-60 helicopter and V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft fly these missions. However, the service considers them less efficient and much more costly.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay you have a small component on radar, broken on an Aegis-class ship. We can now use an unmanned system to go from the big deck \u2013 whether it\u2019s an MSC ship or from the carrier \u2013 out to a small boy in a relatively short amount of time, and we do not have to reschedule and recycle a helo,\u201d Tony Schmidt, director of rapid prototyping, experimentation, and demonstration at NAWCAD, told USNI News in April 2022 at the Navy League\u2019s annual Sea-Air-Space symposium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Eurasian Times has additional information on this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below is a YouTube video, by the Sacramento Bee, showing Intel’s effort to break the drone record for showing fireworks like displays.<\/p>\n