Revitalization of Nuclear Powered Flight

Abstract

There has been a lot of talk about the need to develop the third offset, of which human-machine integration seems to have dominated the conversation. The only problem is that our machines are no good unless they have power. Power to fly and run the sensors and weapons the mission requires. Machines for the USAF come in the form of airplanes, which cannot get to the fight without tanker support or stay in the air for a sufficient time. As the USAF looks to the future, it continues to invest heavily in tanker support and operations that are both expensive and not conducive to surviving in a denied environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1031576

Entities

People

  • Todd C Dawson

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Combustion
  • Command And Control
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Engineers
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Fuel Efficiency
  • Jet Engine Fuels
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Reactors
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Educational Psychology
  • Strategic Security Studies