High Altitude Airships for the Future Force Army
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: October 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780833037596
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; Military engineering; History; Technology & Industrial Arts; Military; USA; General; Military Science; Political Science / General; Aviation - General; Military - United States; Airships; Command and control systems; Military surveillance; United States
First sentence: The U.S. Army's combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003, respectively, showed that the forces lacked adequate intra-unit communications, particularly at lower echelons, and the use of satellite communications resources offered a future solution.