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The future of drones in Canada

27 Aug 2013

MGen Holman accumulated over 3600 hours of pilot-in-command time, primarily on the CF-18, CF-104 and the T-33, and has served as a Director and Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies as well as a Director of the Atlantic Council of Canada. [...] The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Canadian International Council, its Senate or its Board of Directors, or the views of the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute. [...] To adequately explore the issues surrounding the use of UAVs we must fully recognize that the vehicle is but one element of a complex system—generally known as an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).3 Essentially the vehicles are of no value without communications and a control station with human controllers, without properly configured payload elements and without systems to launch and recover the veh [...] In systems analysis, the overall effectiveness of the system is limited by the effectiveness of the weakest link. [...] Thirdly, and critical for the application of military force, is the notion of control: the military, and the Canadian Forces in particular, exists to exercise the application or threat of controlled violence.
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Authors

Holman, D. Fraser

Pages
12
Published in
Calgary, Alberta

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