This paper intends to explore the differences between a general purpose and a functional design approach, and will attempt to answer the question of which of these approaches will best serve the needs of the services on the twenty-first century battlefield. Currently, UAVs are seen in the Army as generic intelligence gathering devices which can be tailored to the mission at hand. Fielding a general purpose UAV retains a certain amount of flexibility in the way that we have initially integrated the UAV concept Another possible alternative is to build functionally specific UAV designs, each for a different purpose.


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    Title :

    Medusa's Mirror: Stepping Forward to Look Back Future UAV Design Implications from the 21st Century Battlefield


    Contributors:
    D. A. Brown (author)

    Publication date :

    1997


    Size :

    68 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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