Analysis of Application Possibilities and Classification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Support of Combat Operations of the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Abstract

Nowadays, in the course of war between Ukraine and the russian federation, there is a large-scale employ of various weapon systems that are used on land, in the air, and at sea. Unlike the enemy, Ukraine Forces prefer to utilize asynchronous methods of armed struggle. In order to successfully implementation of these asynchronous methods is necessary used to contemporary unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned air systems. It is known that at the beginning phase of the war the Ukrainian defenders were used unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned air systems on the principle of “controlled chaos”. As a result of these active operations, the Ukrainian defenders could discourage and defeat enemy. Therefore, in order to secure effective usage of unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned air systems it is necessary to introduce a clear hierarchy with clear classification features. This task is certainly relevant today for Ukrainian NAVY. It is the significant task, because the Ukrainian NAVY has some experience in the combat use of unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned air systems, but they need its systematization and comprehensive implementation, taking into account the specifics of conducting combat operations at Black sea. At the same time, in order to improve functionality and effectiveness of the unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned air systems the developers must apply information technologies such as, internet of military things, cloud technologies and artificial intelligence. For instance, if developers wanted to implementation of internet of military things technologies, they would be able to ensure intercommunication among different groups of aerial vehicles and simplify to control process of them.
 In the proposed paper, the authors tried to perform capabilities analysis of usage of different types unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned air systems with various control systems and military categories based on the use of NATO standards. In addition, the authors performed this analysis considering different types Ukrainian NAVY ships and support vessels. Moreover, the authors of the paper also proposed a classification for unmanned aerial vehicles of Ukrainian NAVY.