Abstract
This chapter takes an illustrative example of a hypothetical new air-to-ground targeting capability. The chapter is fairly detailed in order to show the range of complex issues and problems that arise in introducing a new system into an existing infrastructure, in this case a military one. Similar complexities will arise in most domains and must be solved by their systems engineers.This chapter considers solutions to the targeting problem which maximise the level of autonomy in critical functions and the limits which come from Articles 35 and 36 of API in the Geneva Conventions. It shows how the problem is analysed and the capability defined so that it can be delivered by an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) system integrated into the nation's and coalition's existing Command and Control (C2) infrastructure. The UAV system is the system of a UAV, its ground station, the control and data links between the two and its operators.
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