Expendable Remotely Piloted Vehicles for Strategic Offensive Airpower Roles

摘要

The future holds an accelerating ascent of changes, technological advancements, and potential threats never before imagined just a decade ago. Many lessons of the past may no longer apply to the vastly different conditions of the future. However, past experiences provide the foundation from which we can undertake rational leaps of visionary faith. Hopefully, these attempts will land on firm ground to reveal accessible approaches to meet future challenges. Military visionaries must have open minds to explore new ways of applying the military instrument of power. The United States can no longer simply adapt to the changing environment with belated upgrades to existing military systems and strategies. in order to remain the world's greatest superpower, America's leaders must be openly aggressive in the pursuit for operational and organizational innovations. This study analyzes the concept of using expendable remotely piloted vehicles (RPV) for strategic offensive airpower.