Can the U.S. Navy Overcome the 'Tyranny of Distance' with Drones?
Can the U.S. Navy Overcome the ‘Tyranny of Distance’ with Drones? The current program plan is to operate sixty-eight Triton drones in the Pacific. Yet could there be a need for more? The Pacific theater spans one hundred million square miles, from the West Coast of the United States to the Indian Ocean and all the way to the Arctic, a reality regularly described as something which imposes a “tyranny of distance” upon U.S. and allied forces seeking to track, cover, blanket and surveil activities in the region. “There are not many airfields and there is a lot of open water,” Air For...
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