RQ-2 Pioneer: The Flawed System that Redefined US Unmanned Aviation

Abstract

One of the greatest challenges military commanders face in the planning and execution of warfare is minimizing the fog of war. That gray area in which there is a knowledge gap of what the adversary is going to do at a given time or place, or how ones own forces will react to a given scenario during a campaign. The great military strategist Carl Von Clausewitz, in his work On War, described this phenomenon as an uncertainty that is present in three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based, and as such results in war being a realm of chances.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2012
Accession Number
AD1022933

Entities

People

  • Richard Major

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Iraqi-War
  • National Security
  • Radar
  • Surveillance
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs