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This School of Advanced Airpower Studies thesis and others are availableelectronically at the Air University Research Web site http://research.au.af.mil under “Research Papers” then “Special Collections.”DisclaimerOpinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied within are solely those of theauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the Department of Defense, or any other US government agency. Cleared for public release: distributionunlimited.ii
ContentsChapterDISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iiPageABSTRACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viiACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 HISTORY AND BACKGROUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE AIRPOWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 MERITS OF EXPENDABILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 FUTURE NOTIONAL SCENARIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676 CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71FigureIllustrations1 Family Tree of Aerial Vehicles (1988) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Relative Decline of US Aircraft Losses PerSortie over Four Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Advantages and Disadvantages among StrategicAttack Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Table1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Types andControl Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4iii
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Page 5 and 6: AbstractThe future holds an acceler
Page 7 and 8: AcknowledgmentsI thank all the stud
Page 9 and 10: aircraft. Incorporating the added d
Page 11 and 12: UAVs were more easily defined when
Page 13 and 14: Chapter 4 answers the question: Why
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 2History and BackgroundWe h
Page 17 and 18: The Wright brothers are deservedly
Page 19 and 20: aerial bombs), the British took the
Page 21 and 22: UAVs during World War II to a few g
Page 23 and 24: On 27 October of that year, another
Page 25 and 26: United States to look beyond reconn
Page 27 and 28: ary 1996, Gen Ronald R. Fogleman, A
Page 29 and 30: 29. Shaker and Wise, 28.30. Michael
Page 31 and 32: Chapter 3Strategic Offensive Airpow
Page 33 and 34: ombs, as well as a high sortie rate
Page 35 and 36: It thus follows that future air cam
Page 37 and 38: possible for small formations to ac
Page 39 and 40: spite the successes, it is easily p
Page 41 and 42: The transmissions used by a control
Page 43 and 44: 33. Air Force Scientific Advisory B
Page 45 and 46: diverted 75 percent of its B-29s aw
Page 47 and 48: Table 6Remotely Piloted Vehicle Adv
Page 49 and 50: million dollars each. The unit flya
Page 51 and 52: Relative Ranks for Fewer Design Con
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mission) the open bomb bay doors si
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Relative Ranks for Flight Noise Are
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Owens also stated that the military
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All forms of manned and unmanned ai
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Relative Ranks for Reliability Area
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KEY: ● Major Advantage Counterba
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7. “Report: Military Crashes Down
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62. McGonigle, 34.63. Ibid., 33.64.
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expendable RPVs, American political
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cybornaut activates engine thruster
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Chapter 6ConclusionConstant evaluat
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one role. A countless combination o
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