Term Papers on Plane Warfare

Term Paper Title	Plane Warfare
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Plane Warfare

The twenty-first century will bring many, many changes to
the way the world fights.  No longer will the government send
thousands of militants to foreign countries trying to defeat the
enemy there.  Now, governments will sit at home looking at a
computer and using their mice to kill each other.  At least that
will be the most convenient way of doing it.
Most of the fighting will be by unmanned planes and tanks
and such.  For example, there is a plane now being perfected that
will be able to circle around in the sky waiting for enemy tanks
to show up.  They will be able to sense them from hundreds of
miles away.  They fly towards their target and when they get near
to it, they swoop down and, “spew out a cluster of
mini-projectiles,” that home in on the tank’s week spot and then
totally destroy them.  This whole process will be done without a
single person having to push a button or witness it, although,
there will probably be an option to do so if they want (Watson &
Barry 66-67).
There will also be planes that are uninhabited.  These
planes are first planned to be used in hi-risk flights in the
early twenty-first century.  The plane will be operated by a
human pilot located in a command base in its home country.  Doing
this makes it possible to make them more high-tech because the
cockpit is eliminated.  They will be able to be stealth,
(undetectable) almost twice as long as a plane with a cockpit.
They will become more aerodynamic and lighter and most
importantly, they will cost less.  Another advantage is that they
will be able to do more evasive maneuvers because there is not
any human presence in the plane.  Without anyone in it, it can go
faster.  They are able to withstand higher head levels and
altitudes (Sweetman 96-101).
Three major companies are now working on making these
planes.  Lockheed is making the Martin.  One interesting feature
on the Martin is that when it takes off, it rolls 180 degrees and
flies upside down so that it is harder for ground fire to affect
the engine or landing gear, along with various other essential
parts.  Boeing is making an unmanned plane in collation with the
Air-force.  It is about half the size of the standard manned F-22
fighter making it easier to get into enemy territory.  This one
is the farthest along.  Its test missions are scheduled to start
in 2000 or 2001.  Northrop Grumman is the third company that is
making an uninhabited plane.  It has a stealth system so advanced
that it camouflages itself with its surroundings, such as the
ground, sky, or water.  This makes it virtually impossible to see
with the human eye, and also much harder to see with radar than
normal planes.  The other features that this plane is to have are
air warning control, submarine compultion, electric integration,
combat radar, precision sensors, aircraft integration, missile
launch systems, aerostructures, image recognition systems,
airborne countermeasures, radar, radar jamming systems, and
air-to-ground surveillance.  All three of these planes will be
able to make twenty-G turns, far beyond the nine-G blackout limit
of a manned plane.  Missiles though, can still make fifty-G
turns, and as McDonnell Douglas smartly quoted: “It is a little
like a fat guy and an Olympic sprinter being chased by a pack of
velocirapters.  One of them will just get eaten ten seconds
later” (Sweetman, 96-101).
Similar things will also be available to tanks.  They will
eventually be able to put a whole bunch of tanks onto an
airplane, send it over, and drop the tanks into the middle of a
desert.  From there the tanks will be able to go where ever they
are told to go and destroy anything in their paths.  This makes
it much easier to destroy targets without losing any lives.
There is a problem with this though.  Since everything is being
run by computers, it could be possible for many things to go
wrong.  Computer hackers, from enemy countries could send
viruses, to either destroy the other countries artillery, or turn
it against them.  Be...

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