1.03 Created by Mario Gomez: 2006 - 2007 Maintained and edit by: Geeth de Mel: 2006 - 2010 Last updated: December 2009 Predator B NIIRS National Image Interpretability Rating Scales Aircraft Micro/Miniature Aerial Vehicle Unmmaned Combat Air Vehicles kilometers / hour in kilograms maximum altitude, in meters maximum take-off weight, in kilograms time of continuos operation, in hours in kilometers 3660 95 45.0 6 203.0 87090.0 923 9 9265 42000 20.91 24 9 20.91 10 5550 1066.0 40 204.0 7620 740 <_Intelligence rdf:ID="IntelligenceCollectionCapability"/> 4267 125 220 149.0 6 27.3 0.45 65 2.27 5 150 1 <_UAV_Performance rdf:ID="UAVPerformanceCapability"/> 25 6000 954.0 200 200 114.0 150 4500 228 114.0 727.0 12 90.7 203 6096 4 231 2550.0 260 91.0 5556 40 703.0 7010 <_UAVRangeAndEndurance rdf:ID="UAVRangeAndEnduranceCapability"/> In order to win hearts and minds of the local population, the US and UK forces conduct frequent humanitarian missions in areas neighboring the nuclear industry townships. While supervising a mobile health clinic set by the coalition forces, the team receives notification that a US Special Forces helicopter has crashed near a site of cultural significance. The area around the crash site is known to have a nucleus of fundamentalists opposed to the coalition presence on Holistan soil. The helicopter crew is moving from the immediate vicinity of the crash site to a predefined emergency rendezvous. Members on the clinic are tasked to change their current mission objectives to join the Special Forces at the rendezvous point and ensure their safe passage to the base. Sensor networks in the immediate vicinity of the crash have been detected and destroyed by insurgent forces, and the terrain of the area prevents any other form of communication near the crash site. Combat Search and Rescue Rescue helicopter crew in urban area UN Mission for Binni The new millennium heralded a time of unprecedented disturbance in World affairs. Changes in climate foreshadowed by the Pacific Ocean "el Nino" in the late 1990"s resulted in a series of natural disasters of unprecedented magnitude. These wrought havoc to the developed nations of the Northern Hemisphere. The progressive consequences of its Atlantic Ocean sister "la Nina" and the resulting widespread destruction of property and the national infrastructures of Europe sent tremors through the financial markets resulting in economic crisis. Furthermore, the extremes in climate decimated farming and the food production industries. The resulting chaos, food shortages and consequent increase in prices led to economic unrest, hoarding and ultimately, rationing. Meanwhile, the East African countries, to the South of 15 degrees North Latitude, were spared the worst excesses of "la Nina" and the effects of the continued melting of the Antarctic ice pack. The result was a compensating moderation of the extremes of temperature and the resulting famine, which had so decimated the nomadic peoples of Sudanese Plain during the latter part of the 20th Century. As a result, the deserts bloomed and vast tracts of land which were uninhabited/uninhabitable became arable and itinerant people returned to their homelands to become farmers and landowners in an albeit primitive agrarian society. The local political leaders were quick to realise that "the pendulum of fate" had swung in their favour and sought to take advantage by encouraging investment in agricultural production with the promise of arrangements leading to preferred sources of supply for the future. This naturally resulted in the influx of large foreign investments with the requirement for an increasing infrastructure to support and manage the resources and harvest. However, the repatriation of these indigenous peoples caused unrest as tribal conflicts opened old wounds and attempts to oversee the reallocation of land by peaceful means often foundered. Boundary disputes frequently led to "vigilante actions" and increasingly to open hostility between communities due to the absence of an adequate law enforcement infrastructure. Such tribal conflicts soon began to breach national boundaries with the resulting insurrection being addressed by the use of the respective national military forces. Increasing conscription and modernisation resulting from the perceived potential for economic prosperity enhanced these forces, especially those of Gao which, being on the Sudanese Plain, had suffered significantly from the ravages of famine and disease. Furthermore, in recognition of the business opportunities and stability of climate, key industries of the industrialised nations began to decamp towards the areas of new development. The resulting migration of European staff and the consequent cultural and economic differences resulted in protective enclaves to ensure the safety of key staff. This inflamed the situation of mistrust and gave rise to feelings of resentment and exploitation, which added further fuel to the civil unrest. ... Litoral operation A Littoral Operation in Response to a Crisis under a UN Mandate. 0 96 0 3.9 740 5550 1066.0 3000.0 24 12190 <_Capability rdf:ID="CapabilityCapability"/> 907.0 12130.0 36 19800 650 21720 4 4270 84.0 210 17.2 10 2 1200 14061.0 2401 18000 <_UAVFlyingAltitude rdf:ID="UAVFlyingAltitudeCapability"/> The theater of operations for our scenario is set in the hypothetical country of Holistan located somewhere in the middle-east, with a population which has a strong underlying resentment fuelled by religious fundamentalists against the western civilization. The government of the country has obtained weapons of mass destruction (nuclear and chemical) against the wishes of US and UK foreign policy, but is generally friendly towards the two nations. However, due to an impending crisis in the country, which strongly increases the risks of nuclear/chemical technology falling into the hands of religious militants, the two nations are forced to form an uneasy coalition with a somewhat reluctant government of Holistan with the objective of saving the surrounding area from a larger crisis. The terrain, environment and the operational environment of the coalition operations provide new challenges for the research community, including the topics of managing limited trust and risk among coalition partners, hostile environments without characteristics conducive for wireless networks, innovative use of sensors in parasitic modes, decision making with partial information, and synthesis of environment data into simpler situational contexts. International Mision for Holistan Main Supply Route Surveillance Protect main supply route (MSR) which is under threat by insurgents ... Search and resque hostages in an hostile urbal environment Rescue Hostages search and resque hostages Coalition intelligence agencies have been informed that a covert operation to cause unrest in the civilian population has been put into place. The town of VritaSajan, a uranium enrichment site, is the intended target. The plan is to foment riots among the two sects of Malek religion in VritaSajan township, and use the rioting as a background to incite a mob to storm the enrichment facility. The protective measures taken by US or UK forces will be used as a pretext to launch a civil disobedience movement forcing the military dictatorship of Holistan to request withdrawal of western forces from the nuclear facilities and turn them back over to Holistani authorities. The plan is to be initiated by the infiltration of some covert insurgent leaders, but the adequate physical description of those leaders is not available Tracking Insurgents to identify any rabble rousers and have them be deported from the neighborhood Coalition intelligence agencies have received information about a plan to smuggle nuclear material from a facility in Holistan across the border into Rugistan to carry out a dirty bomb attack in the capital. This plan has been named by the insurgents as "The sword of Jihad". to mount an intervention operation in order to deny the insurgents the opportunity to carry out "The sword of Jihad" Sabotage Dirty Bomb 15.4 157 1500 4.3 5000 15