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by boing » Fri Apr 01, 2022 2:10 pm
This has been a steadily unfolding inevitability, the strange circumstance is that the technology required to make these systems possible has been provided by advances in technology in the civilian sector not the military one. Increasing the power and capabilities of cell phones while reducing their size has been a key factor. Think about your cell phone, it has incredible communication ability, even greater than that it is allowed to use due to various regulations, it has excellent GPS capability and an advanced imaging system and all of this in a small package that is continually getting smaller. All of these ever increasing capabilities can be cross connected with already complex civilian drone systems - simply add explosives.
There is on the internet a video of a drone flying at very low level using terrain following technology, a really frightening possibility for any troops or armour in the open. This was a civilian "toy", I would say the military is trailing civilian developments in drone technology.
I recently saw an interesting accidental demonstration of the trends. We were at a somewhat sensitive location to carry out some development work and the site manager approved of my companion taking some drone photos to aid with the project. The drone was launched as normal from the office area and directed to the work site - which it refused to enter acting as though it was bouncing off an invisible wall. We later found that the site has some type of exclusion zone for RPVs that even the site manager did not know about but it was very precise and effective.
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the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.