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¶ … technological innovations have had the greatest impact on this area in the last 100-200 years?
Technology and air war fare-
Originally, warfare was mainly perpetrated on ground due to the challenges in perpetrating war form the air. Within the last 100 years, however, huge progress has been made in technology that has led to a radical change in the field of air warfare in general leading to huge developments in that field. Three of the greatest inventions have been stealth technology, Rapture, and the drone.
Stealth technology
Stealth technology, also known as LO technology (low observable technology) involves a range of techniques that camouflages factors of air war such as personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, and missile and helps make them more invisible to preceptors on the ground. It also makes them more immune to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection methods. (Rao & Mahulikar, 2002). Stealth technology was first developed by the U.S.A. In 1958 as part of the Cold War project to camouflage U-2 spy planes (Mahulikar et al., 2007). Earlier attempts to make them withstand radar surveillance had...
Essentially, steps were taken to shape and form the surface composition of, for instance, the plane and to develop it in such a way that electromagnetic waves were redirected from radars making the object less immune to discovery. Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber" is an example in kind of just such a warfare plane that demonstrates the heights of such technology (Richelson, 2001).
Ever since the 1960s, the technology has grown by leaps and bounds and is applied to relevant objects in stages determining on the particular level of threat that that object signifies. Some military uniforms are treated with chemicals to reduce their infrared signature, whilst other objects (such as planes) are fashioned form the start to confuse radar signatures. As detection and interception technologies have become more sophisticated, the growth of stealth technologies has developed too.
The drone (or an unmanned aerial vehicle) is another wonder of technology that has changed the face of air warfare.
These are planes that are not controlled by any pilot, rather their flight is directed from the ground by remote control of a…
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