PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MILITARY FLYING WING UAV WITH PULSE JET ENGINE

Abstract

The current technological level of data acquisition systems, used on military and civilian unmanned aircraft, allow for diverse kinetic sampling conditions covering large ranges of altitudes and temperature. Thus, there is a need to collect the necessary atmospheric data, in terms of constructive simplicity and reduction of total costs (manufacturing and operation), with the help of unmanned aircraft equipped with PJE (pulse jet engine) and PDE (pulse detonation engine) propulsion systems. The article presents pre-design aspects of a flying wing UAV concept equipped with a PJE engine, which can be mounted on supersonic aircraft.