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Armed Drone Technology
Sarah E. Kreps
in Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Over the last decade, the United States went from having unarmed surveillance drones to sophisticated armed drones capable of conducting prolonged surveillance and then killing the target. ...
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Drones for the Ground and Sea
Sarah E. Kreps
in Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Until this point, the discussion has focused on drones as unmanned aerial technology. This is consistent with how the term “drone” is conventionally used. It is also consistent with the ...
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The Future of Drones: Nano, Autonomous Systems, and Science Fiction
Sarah E. Kreps
in Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The next phase of development in unmanned technologies is likely to take place in micro/nanoscale technologies or autonomous systems, both of which stand to change the way drones are used ...
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Introduction
Sarah E. Kreps
in Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Not a day goes by without another spectacular story about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones: Amazon announces it will deliver packages via drones, the US Federal ...
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Noncombat Technolog
Sarah E. Kreps
in Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The use of drones for armed conflict has tended to draw a good deal of scrutiny and indeed criticism, but drones have potential uses far beyond combat. This chapter, which returns the ...
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Proliferation of Drones to Other Countries
Sarah E. Kreps
in Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know®
As earlier chapters suggest, the United States has been, by far, the country leading the use of armed drones. Having used drones first in Afghanistan in 2001, in Yemen in 2002, then in ...
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