Teal Group 研究報告未來十年全球無人飛機研發經費逼近550億美元

The Teal Group study projects nearly $55 billion dollars will be spent on UAVs over the next 10 years 

The military deploys thousands of unmanned vehicles and will likely use many more in the coming years. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, have employed small robots for tasks such as bomb disposal.  

The Army's Future Combat Systems program includes small and large unmanned ground vehicles, from a 30-lb Small Unmanned Vehicle to 2.5-ton Multifunctional Utility/Logistics and Equipment vehicles. Unmanned underwater vehicles are likewise being pressed into Naval service for tasks such as searching for mines.

The skies above the war zones also swarm with unmanned aircraft.  Steve Zaloga, a senior military analyst with the Teal Group and one of the authors of the group's 2008 study on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), says the military had 520 UAVs in 2006, up from just 127 in 2002. “Not only are there a lot more UAVs but they're actually being used more often, too,” Zaloga says, adding that these unmanned aircraft chalked up more than 160,000 flight hours in 2006, up from 30,000 hours in 2002.

The Teal Group study projects nearly $55 billion dollars will be spent on UAVs over the next 10 years, with the spending growing from $3.4 billion in 2008 to $7.3 billion by 2017.   See a 8-min video regarding current UAVs flying presented by "Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International". Note that Yoshine Helicopter's Coaxial UAV is also introduced.

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新聞報導 12/7/2007