Military aircraft

As a Warrant Officer in the United States Army we serve a very unique purpose. When asked any Warrant Officer will quickly tell you they are “technical and tactical experts” in their particular field, be it aviation, transportation, maritime service or field specialization. ADRP 6-22 states that we serve our organizations by providing quality advice and solutions in equipment at the junior levels, moving to technical knowledge on higher echelon systems at the senior level. This does not mean,…

approximately $5 billion allocated for drones in the 2012 Department of Defense budget, America's entire drone program constitutes only about 1% of the entire annual military budget. In comparison, the military's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program alone cost the United States $9.7 billion in fiscal year 2012. US manned military attack aircraft cost anywhere from $18,000 to $169,000 per hour to operate - six to 42 times more than attack drones. Al Qaeda spent roughly half a million dollars to plan…

people and also unknown places that might have missiles or other heavy equipment. The CIA were the first people to use the first drone. THat means the military didn’t make it. The CIA was the first people to work with the drones and make changes to them as years passed. The first person to make the first drone was Reginald Denny. He served in the military. The war he served in was World War 1. He said he started making the drone because he said it would help the people on the ground to watch out…

When the Army is restricted from employing the latest and greatest technology on the battlefield, it is usually because of the cost of the item or the time it would take to procure and distribute new equipment. Sometimes, lack of interest in a useful piece of equipment will prevent it from being funded and used. Prior to the Korean War, none of these three restrictions served as the obstacle that blocked the Army from maximizing the potential for aviation assets, even as incredible…

Every time you hear a story about war, writers always put it in a male’s point of view making it seem like women don’t matter too. Women should be able to do anything and everything men could do, meaning equal access to jobs and careers in military as well as outside of it. People state that women aren’t “physically, mentally, and emotionally qualified” to actually be involved in combat. People think we should continue to have legal bars against women that want to be involved in the combat unit,…

experience, and the United States need for pilots, the U.S. still refused to let Bullard fly. The U.S. armed force weren't officially segregated until 1948, WWII paved the way for post-war integration of the Military. In 1941, less than 4,000 African Americans were serving in the U.S. military and only twelve had became ranking officers. By 1945 more than 1.2 million African Americans would be serving in Uniform at home…

EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNCTION #9: SEARCH AND RESCUE Jeremy Hughart American Military University I chose to write this paper on the emergency support function #9: Search and Rescue. This function is especially important to me because it requires the most specialized training and dedication to the job. Search and rescue personnel must have nerves of steel and be able to perform under incredible stress when called upon. They must be ready to launch immediately after all natural disasters on land,…

HQDA detailers received complaints from commanders concerning placements, quality for Training and Combat Development Directorates at Fort Rucker. They wanted CGSC graduates. I found it interesting that they chose a passed-over Major to solve that problem. And DA told me this was my only promotion opportunity, but by now, I realized that what they said was not what they meant. But the options were scarce, and I was within three years of retirement. Enterprise, Alabama was a low-cost area,…

computers maintain the stability of an aircraft without the need of pilots, let us first explain, what is the meaning of aircraft stability? In addition, how there is an unstable aircrafts? Stability is how aircraft corrects for conditions like turbulence or flight control inputs , in another meaning , stability is the ability to keep the aircrafts in the chosen altitude and for aircraft, there are two types of general stability: static and dynamic. In civil aircrafts , we only care about…

deploy and operate with minimal issues while sustaining operations through high op-tempo throughout the deployment. This was definitely a positive example of shifting personnel and positioning them in positions that would allow the unit to sustain military operations in a high op-tempo…