Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Air Power will take a new form in the use of UAVs. They will change lives, save lives, and reduce costs. Airplanes have increasingly become a major part of humanities since the Great War (World War I), being able to go faster than the speed of sound, carry tons of items, they are equipped with major electronic systems, and can perform more acrobatics than the human body can withstand. But one common denominator has stayed the same; it requires a human to control the vehicle in flight causing risks to the pilots and crew. Today, however, technology has advanced to such a state that communicative links are now available around the world, allowing the control of an unmanned aircraft from a base station. A vision is that an operator would first plan the attack on a mission support computer and load the strike profile into the vehicle. During the mission, changes could be data-linked via a secure communications system. Sitting at a control station an operator would be able to coordinate not just one vehicles action, but those of an entire package of unmanned aircraft. This topic of UAVs has mixed opinions between combat pilots to business executives on their use in the armed forces and use for
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Approximate Word count = 1819
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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