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War has always been an incubator for innovation. This is no less true of the current fights in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the most important innovations to come out of the past decade of conflict, really a military revolution, was in unmanned tactical Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Surveillance
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Date:
7/5/2012
Unmanned aircraft have become the signature weapon of America's global war on terrorists. Just last week, a CIA drone strike killed al Qaeda's second in command. But unmanned aircraft have limitations. First, they are usually defenseless against attack. Second, they are fragile. Third, their
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Date:
8/29/2011
War is the real mother of invention. The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are notable for, among many things, promoting the development and deployment of a wide range of innovative military weapons systems, products and processes. Some of these are unique to the circumstances of our two current conflicts
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Date:
8/5/2011
Most of the public reporting on the military’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) focuses on the big birds. The size of some airplanes, UAVs such as the Predator and Global Hawk can travel long distances, stay in the air for a long time and carry relatively heavy payloads. A derivative of the
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Date:
7/6/2011
The great revolution to emerge from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts is airborne ISR. From having literally only a handful of manned and unmanned aerial ISR sensors at the start of these conflicts, the U.S. military now has almost ten thousand deployed. They range in size and capability from the
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Date:
10/7/2010
In a July 15 hearing before the House Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism, Nancy Malinowski, Vice President for System Operation Services at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), testified that despite unmanned aerial systems (UASs) being a promising technology, “the
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Date:
7/26/2010