by David Brennan -Newsweek
The commencement airstrike e'er launched from an unmanned drone was a failure . On Oct 7, 2001—the commencement black of the state of war inwards Afghanistan—a CIA Predator drone buzzed inwards a higher house a chemical compound where Taliban leader Mullah Omar too his senior commanders were gathered.
But rather than decapitating the Taliban leadership, the bang alone blew upward a truck parked outside. Alerted to the danger, Omar too his commanders fled into the night.
Despite the outcome, the mission was a watershed moment. Some xvi years later, drone technology has revolutionized the means the the United States of America fights wars. Drone technology is used on battlefields on land, at sea, too volition presently fifty-fifty live inwards space.
But drones—or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—are no longer used alone yesteryear top-tier armed services powers. The advent of relatively inexpensive recreational UAVs has made them available to those without the resources to invest inwards armed services query too development. According to a written report from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) , more than xc countries too nonstate groups plain drones, too thirty accept weaponized the
The spread of UAV technology to militants represents the adjacent evolution of warfare yesteryear remote control, whereby terrorist groups tin build de facto air forces. Weaponized drones are ofttimes low-tech but potentially deadly.
The Islamic State armed services grouping (ISIS ), for example, was able to import too build hundreds—if non thousands—of inexpensive too portable drones, using them to terrorize their enemies on the battlefields of Republic of Iraq too Syria. When ISIS’s Mosul bastion move vicious inwards the summertime of 2017, Iraqi forces constitute dozens of drone factories …
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