Defensive Future Studies

Defensive Future Studies

MAV threats Management in the future operational environment

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Khatam Al Anbia Air Defense University (pbuh), Tehran, Iran
2 Instructor, IRI Military Command and Staff, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Objectives: The ever-increasing progress of military technologies, especially future air threats, including unmanned aerial vehicles, has made it inevitable to pay close scientific attention to the category of threat management. The main aspects of the future operational environments are the topics of environmental awareness, future research, and forecasting the needs of threat management. The aim of the current research is how to manage the threats of small UAVs in the future operational environment.
Methods: This research is an applied type and library study methods and references to documents and questionnaire tools were used to collect data and purposeful sampling was used to select the sample size of the researched statistical population. The AHP method has been used to determine the priority of necessary actions to manage the threats of small birds in peacetime and in times of crisis and war in the future operational environment.
Findings: The results of the research showed that the main research variables with a correlation coefficient of less than 0.1 have an effect on the future operational environment.
Conclusion: The suggestions of this research are the emphasis and attention of the air defense responsible for recognizing the threats of micro-birds based on the research results and also the need to change the way of managing threats in the operational environment in the air defense sector in times of peace and times of crisis and war, with the priority of adopting defense strategies Suitable includes preventive and reactive measures and improving the capabilities of detecting various types of MAV threats and using new and appropriate technologies in air defense weapon systems
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