Air Warfare

Changing the battlefield with quadcopters and fixed-wing VTOLS

There’s a new battlespace called “air-ground littoral” where quadcopters and fixed-wing VTOLs now dominate.

On the list of heretofore unseen impacts of the Ukraine war are the dominance of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) at the tactical level. For brigades, regiments and below, Group 1 and 2 sUAS in the form of quadcopters and fixed-wing vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are already disrupting the way of war.

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