The current battlefield is changing rapidly. Combat operations against irregular forces are set in a dispersed, non-linear battlefield. Vast distances between small units such as the infantry squad, and the distances from these small elements to their supporting organizations, pose unique challenges. Casualty evacuation is an evolving challenge. The goal of casualty evacuation is to transport an injured Marine from the point of injury to a medical care facility. Increased dispersion results in longer distances from the point of injury to medical care facilities with a corresponding increase in the delay between the time of injury and lifesaving surgical care. The non- linear aspects of this battlefield increase the threat to aircraft crews and platforms conducting casualty evacuation. Unmanned aerial systems offer an alternative means of air casualty evacuation. This alternative may provide time- critical response while reducing threat to aircraft crews. The thesis determined the probability distribution of mission completion times and identified the most influential factors on mission success.
Determination of Critical Factors in Unmanned Casualty Evacuation in the Distributed Environment
2009
67 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Statistical Analysis , Probability distribution functions , Evacuation , Casualties , Air transportation , Dispersing , Aircraft , Threats , Infantry , Battlefields , Distribution , Facilities , Theses , Time , Nonlinear systems , Crews , Missions , Unmanned , Wounds and injuries , Medical services , Surgery , Determination , Squad level organizations , Environments , Warfare , Life saving , Military operations , Simulation , Casevac(Challenges and casualty evacuation) , Uas(Unmanned aerial systems)
International SOS Mass Casualty Evacuation - Bali 12 October 2002
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2002
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