Uninhabited Air Vehicles: Enabling Science for Military Systems

by Committee on Materials Structures and Ae, National Research Council, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, et al.

U.S. Air Force (USAF) planners have envisioned that uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs), working in concert with inhabited vehicles, will become an integral part of the future force structure. Current plans are based on the premise that UAVs have the potential to augment, or even replace, inhabited aircraft in a variety of missions. However, UAV technologies must be better understood before they will be accepted as an alternative to inhabited aircraft...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309069831
• ISBN13: 9780309069830
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 124 Pages