Imagine a swarm of rubber-band catapulted armed mini-drones flying in large formations over a battlefield? Now, ponder the fact that each drone was modified, armed and operationalized from off-the-shelf models worth less than $200 each. The future of aerial warfare has landed. China recently demonstrated ...
... aerial vehicles, both surveillance and combat, increases constantly in frequency. As part of the troop withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan and reducing defense costs, President Obama gave the order to increase tenfold the frequency of launching the drones [3]. The German minister of defense Thomas de Maizière has repeatedly stated the intention to acquire combat drones for Germany, as well as to develop own models [4]. The need to combat the insurgents, as well as the use of new military ...
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