Optionally Piloted Vehicle

As optionally piloted vehicle (OPV) to aircraft referred to, both manned by a pilot and unmanned fly. As an alternative to pure manned or unmanned aircraft, such aircraft can be configured depending on the mission. If z. B. the skills of a human pilot are required, the aircraft can be operated manned, while z. B. No crew is required for long, monotonous missions.

Examples of Optionally Piloted Aircraft are:

• Aurora Centaur
• Aeronautics Dominator
• Stem S15
• Sikorsky UH-60
• Northrop Grumman Firebird
• Kaman K-MAX
• Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Advanced Aviation Technology: OPV - Optionally Piloted Vehicle. Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
2. ↑ FlightGlobal: Armasuisse takes delivery of first Aurora Centaur. Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
3. ↑ defense-update.net: Boeing, Aeronautics Join Forces to Promote the Dominator MALE UAV. Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
4. ^ Rainer Schmid: Dual-mode aircraft from Stemme . In: Fliegerrevue . No. 8 , 2011, p. 30th f .
5. ^ Sikorsky: Optionally Piloted Black Hawk. Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
6. ↑ airforce-technology.com: Firebird. Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
7. ↑ army-technology.com: UAV evolution - how natural selection directed the drone revolution. Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Kaman: K-MAX Unmanned Aircraft System; Optionally Piloted Cargo Lift Helicopter for the Warfighter. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 7, 2012 ; Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Flight Global: NATO allies expressing interest in OPTIONALLY-manned K-MAX. Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 
10. ↑ boeing.com: Scores of projects in the works. (PDF; 506 kB) Retrieved January 6, 2011 .