Comparative Features of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Border Protection of Libya: A Review

An accurate and forceful autopilot system, such as drones or small-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), becomes the requirements and intent for most of the Military Air Forces worldwide. This intent is encouraged and motivated with the advancement of related technologies such as the batteries capacity and size, radio transmitters’ efficiency, robust and economy frame materials, new generation of microprocessors, and electrical motors technology. The UAVs have become applicable in civilian, military and across industries circumstances like remote sensing, mapping, traffic monitoring, storm tracking and forecasting, precision crop monitoring, aerial photography, unmanned cargo transport, law enforcement and border control surveillance, search and rescue, etc. In this context, the use of UAV for border protection is one of particular importance to the State of Libya from illegal immigrant and smuggling of the weapons. Libya geographical position, considered a transit point to Europe and lack off the security stability in recent years. Moreover, the length of the Libya border and the difficulty of the geographical terrain especially the Sahara in the south make it difficult for the Border Guard to monitor the border. The use of UAV is the best way to protect the borders, which has several advantages, notably cheap cost, suitable for desert climate, the quality of images taken by UAVs, with high. The present investigation deals with the comparative studies of UAVs used for Libyan border’s protection between ELI-XL multi-raptor UAVs, Desert Hawk III (DH III) UAVs, RQ-IIB Raven UAVs, Silent Falcon UAVs and Phantom 4 Advanced.