PROSPECTS FOR THE JOINT USE OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

In the article, the development of methods of combat use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from the point of view of cause and effect processes in the system "UAVs - means of enemy air defense - purposes of combat mission" is considered by the authors.  The main factors of development and changes in the methods of combat use of UAVs are analyzed. The basic patterns and connections of the process of development of methods of joint use of UAVs, the area of conditions for the expedient use of groups of UAVs are highlighted. The scientific problem of the stochastic synthesis of the automated control system for the group application of UAVs, as one of the problems of modern control theory and technical cybernetics, is substantiated and formalized. The question of the possibility of reducing the task of stochastic synthesis of the automated control system for the group application of UAVs to the set of control optimization tasks in linear (linearized) systems according to quadratic criteria is considered.