Commercial Drones Poised to Become Prodigious Worldwide Business by 2021

2.3.1 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Market Total Forecasts 111
2.3.2 Small Commercial Drone Unmanned Aircraft Market Forecasts 114
2.3.1 Mid-Size Commercial Drone Unmanned Aircraft Market Forecasts 117
2.3.1 Small and Mid Size Commercial Drone Unmanned Aerial Systems 120
2.3.2 Commercial Drone Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Market Forecasts by Sector 121
2.3.3 Commercial Drone UAS Wing Based Subsegments 131
2.4 Unmanned Aerial Systems Payloads 131
2.4.1 Composites Key to UAV Utility 132
2.5 Unmanned Airplane Regional Market Analysis 133
2.5.1 U.S Accounts for 73 Percent Of The Worldwide Research, Development, Test, And
Evaluation (RDT&E) Spending On UAV Technology 135
2.5.2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Industry Regional Summary 136
2.5.3 UAS Marketplace Moving Target 138
2.5.4 China 138
3. DRONES: COMMERCIAL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 139
3.1 AeroVironment 139
3.1.1 BP and AeroVironment Launch FAA-Approved, Commercial Unmanned Aircraft
Operations 139
3.1.2 AeroVironment and Commercial UAV 144
3.1.3 AeroVironment AV’s Family of Small UAS 146
3.1.4 AeroVironment Raven 147
3.2 Textron Aerosonde 148
3.2.1 Textron / Aerosonde AAI Services 151