Supporting Combat Power Projection Away from Fixed Infrastructure - Research Report

Faced with the challenge of deterring and defeating aggression by the kinds of highly capable adversaries highlighted in the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is exploring alternative weapon systems and concepts of employment that will allow it to generate combat power without being harnessed to air bases and runways that adversaries may view as high-value targets. In this report, the authors examine the logistics and sustainment aspects of an emerging operational concept for employing a family of unmanned aerial vehicles that can be launched, recovered, and sustained with minimal reliance on runways, thereby improving operational resiliency in the face of adversary targeting of runways. The authors find that this class of weapon system-called affordable runway-independent unmanned aerial vehicles (ARIUAV)-can conduct high-volume combat operations with lower resource requirements than traditional platforms. The a

ISBN:	9781977408013
Publisher:	RAND Corporation
Imprint:	RAND
Published date:	15 Apr 2022
DEWEY:	623.7469
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvi, 67
Weight:	122g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	4mm

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