Making Room for Risk

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Unmanned aerial vehicles, which have been depicted as an example of disruptive technologies, are playing an increasingly important role for U.S. military planners. Disruptive technologies, in the fields of biotechnology and communications, are those products that improve current products but are too expensive to develop for production.

Author: Stavridis, James
Product development, Government domestic functions, Remotely Piloted Vehicles & Drones, United States. Department of Defense

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Displacement vessels for our atmospheric ocean

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The article mentions some of the history of military airship operations and the advantages of airships in applications such as coast guard, airborne early warning, antisubmarine warfare, communications relay, mine countermeasures and airlift.

Author: Van Treuren, Richard G.
Services information, Military Airships & Balloons, Military airships, Military balloons

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The missing piece to the OMFTS puzzle: the quad tiltrotor

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A Quad TiltRotor vertical-lift transport would greatly aid the US Marine Corps accomplish its mission of landing and supporting well-armed troops quickly and with maximum mobility.

V/STOLs, Military, Transport Aircraft NEC (Military), Military aircraft, Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, Military transport aircraft, United States. Marine Corps

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