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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Secretariat General of Defence and National Armaments Directorate

Directorate of Air Armaments and Airworthiness

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SUMMARY

FUTURE CHALLENGES

RPAS EVOLUTION

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1939 HE 178 First Jet

1903 Wright Flyer

1946 Bell X-1 First supersonic

1973 Taridan Mastiff First RPAS

RPAS EVOLUTION

Air vehicles from LEONARDO DA VINCI to RPAS

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From simple Toys to military operational aircraft

Global Hawk

Strix C

RPAS EVOLUTION

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Toxic material detection

Scientific data collection

Aerial Photos

Surveillance

Package delivery

RPAS EVOLUTION

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Ambulance RPAS

In the future the number of applications where the RPAS can be used will grow more

Surveillance RPAS

RPAS EVOLUTION

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MUTUAL INTEREST IN COLLABORATION

FUTURE CHALLENGES

• Military Authiorities gained wide experience in the RPAS certification by producing a set of appropriate regulations

• Civil domain does not have yet consolidated rules

• Military Authorities can provide Civil Authories with their experience

• Common requirements can facilitate the insertion in the airspace for both RPAS

• Industry increases the safety level of RPAS based on new technologies (i.e. sense and avoid - MIDCAS)

IF

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Civil and Military Users

FUTURE CHALLENGES

• Immediate use of new systems every day more capable

• Reduction of any possible constraints

Laws/Public opinion

• Guarantee the public safety

• Diffidence towards «drones» either in civil and military world

Industry

• Satisfy customer requirements making business (also without aeronautical experience)

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• Give clear and unambiguous directions

• Harmonize civil and military certification processes and requirements as much as possible

• Avoid developing different military and civil systems fulfilling the same need

• Certification process not to be considered a limiting factor for the market

• Stimulate industry to find better solutions taking advantage of the technological progress.

FUTURE CHALLENGES

To Industry

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Drive public perception to understand that:

• Safety of the overflown third party is guaranteed • RPAS are not toys anymore • Even if they are very small in size, they have a very

high concentration of technology and high performance

• RPAS can be dangerous only if they are not properly managed

Balance requirements to the real hazard, defining new approaches as appropriate

FUTURE CHALLENGES

To public opinion

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Certification framework based on:

• Harmonised rules

• Clear processes

• Legal protection in case accidental damages

• Satisfaction at the maximum level of customer expectation

FUTURE CHALLENGES

To Civil and Military Users

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• Currently, in order to guarantee the safety of third

overflown party, we use: • Requirements based on system energy • Limitations on airspace and population density

of overflown areas

• The future challenge is to identify new means to assess risk on overflown population, more appropriate to RPAS specific characteristics

• The key factor of certification process improvement will be the capability to share the new methodologies in the MAWA community

FUTURE CHALLENGES

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CONCLUSIONS

• Maximize the benefit of a common regulatory framework in MAWA

• Improve collaboration between the MAWA community and EASA but keeping mutual independency

• Work together to define rules and process acceptable to both and applicable to all dual use applications.

For RPAS, Civil and Military should have a harmonized approach

Way ahead

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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Secretariat General of Defence and National Armaments Directorate

Directorate of Air Armaments and Airworthiness

24 SEP 2014 LT GEN. FRANCESCO LANGELLA