Medusa's Mirror: Stepping Forward to Look Back "Future UAV Design Implications from the 21st Century Battlefield"

Abstract

This paper intends to explore the differences between a general purpose and a functional design approach, and will attempt to answer the question of which of these approaches will best serve the needs of the services on the twenty-first century battlefield. Currently, UAVs are seen in the Army as generic intelligence gathering devices which can be tailored to the mission at hand. Fielding a general purpose UAV retains a certain amount of flexibility in the way that we have initially integrated the UAV concept Another possible alternative is to build functionally specific UAV designs, each for a different purpose.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 18, 1997
Accession Number
ADA339467

Entities

People

  • David A. Brown

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Market Economy
  • Military Applications
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Warfare

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