Unmanned Aerial Systems: The Future of Marine Fixed Wing Aviation

Abstract

As the most advanced military in the world, the United States has maintained a reputation for combining advanced technology with sound tactics. At the forefront of today's technological advances is the development of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Enhancements in UASs have transformed the current battle space with innovate tactics, techniques, and procedures. These developments are now providing combatant commanders support capabilities such as persistent intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and timely and accurate direct and indirect fires, consequently eliminating the inherent risks of launching manned aircraft into harm's way. Because of the survivability, reduced costs, and constantly improving capabilities of unmanned aircraft systems, the Marine Corps should begin transitioning from manned fighter attack aircraft to all unmanned aerial systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 19, 2008
Accession Number
ADA499400

Entities

People

  • Angela R. Hooper

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Attack Aircraft
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Control Systems
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Military Aircraft
  • Munitions
  • Tactical Air Support
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

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  • Economics
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Space