The Use of Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the Field of Defense and Current Developments

The use of UAV systems for military reconnaissance and surveillance activities is one of the most frequently used methods. However, problems related to flight time cause restrictions in the use of UAV systems on the field of defense and security. With today’s developing technologies, TUAV (Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) systems have been started to be designed to overcome the flight time limitations. TUAV systems in the field of defense are used to ensure border security, protect forward operational bases, and establish telecommunication ports. TUAV systems offer significant advantages to military bases in many aspects in reconnaissance and observation activities. They have important advantages in terms of flight time, safe flight, ease of use, autonomy, legislations, secure data transfer, and deterrence. In this study, usage examples of TUAV systems in the field of defense were examined, and examples of use in the field of defense were presented.