The ongoing global military operations and related defence research have placed emphasis on future conflict environments from a complex terrain/urban perspective, including threats from improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Conventional counterrmine equipments and doctrines needs to be re-considered for the development of a new operational philosophy from an unmanned technology perspective. The Sir Lawrence Wackett Centre for Aerospace Design Technology has embarked on investigations and conceptual design studies of a VTUAV for IED detection.

This paper is located in the AHS International 63rd Annual Forum (TL716 .A1 A512 2007 VOL.1).