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About the Book The authors examine the logistics and sustainment aspects of an emerging operational concept for employing a family of unmanned aerial vehicles that can be launched, recovered, and sustained with minimal reliance on runways. Book Synopsis The authors examine the logistics and sustainment aspects of an emerging operational concept for employing a family of unmanned aerial vehicles that can be launched, recovered, and sustained with minimal reliance on runways. They find that this class of weapon system?called affordable runway-independent unmanned aerial vehicles?can conduct high-volume combat operations with lower resource requirements than traditional platforms.