Supporting Combat Power Projection Away from Fixed Infrastructure

By Bradley Deblois, David T Orletsky, James A Leftwich

The authors examine the logistics and sustainment aspects of an emerging operational concept for employing a family of unmanned aerial vehicles that can be launched, recovered, and sustained with minimal reliance on runways. They find that this class of weapon system?called affordable runway-independent unmanned aerial vehicles?can conduct high-volume combat operations with lower resource requirements than traditional platforms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197740801X
• ISBN13: 9781977408013
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"