Drones and the Future of War | People and Power

Such technology had been used in Ethiopia's northern region, Tigray in a war that killed 1M people. So indeed drones are highly destructive. They were from UAE, Turkey and Iran.

It's still crazy to me that essentially a toy airplane has changed war forever

Autonomous machines don't "make their own decisions about whether or not to kill", any more than a phone decides to alert you to an incoming call, or an escalator chooses to take you up to the next floor.

I have been flying drones for a few years now. I get a thrill from the altitude and freedom to explore my planet in a safe and environmentaly manner than other modes. It is so sad we have to find yet another way to invoke pain and suffering by this means. Heck, if we want to wage war with drones, then let's be competitive about it and let the best drones win while we all drink a beer together and watch it all play out on TV. What a dream that would be compared to what is really happening today all over our beautiful planet.

Tasking a drone swarm to kill everything within a geographical “kill box” is the ultimate manifestation of this issue. It’s a scary thought.

This was the first thing that came to my mind a few years ago when I saw drones for the first time, I knew that there would be trouble for the world in the future, first of all, it was clear that its military value would be discovered quickly, when I told my friends this way, they didn't take me seriously, they saw me as a toy to take photos and videos.:body-blue-raised-arms:

This was a superb production in all aspects. Thank you for this video.

Not enough synchronicity between ground and satellite systems and the drones, we need an AI as an intermediatory. Then you'll see a more effective coordinated use of the drones.

Drones will become man’s favorite toy to man’s scariest reaper, it sort of makes me understand how people felt when aircraft first became armed and took away from the romantic scenic aspect during war times but also aircraft will always remain an eternal beauty , it would be fun to reverse engineer these things

very good journalism. keep up the good work.

An eye-opening program. It's almost always wars and fighting which bring about innovation and changes. It has reached new heights -- the question is whether conventional means such as international treaties can make any difference to prevent atrocities?

Drones in warfare are the Genie that can't be put back into the lamp! The sight of a Main Battle Tank (MBT) being stopped by an inexpensive, modified leisure drone dropping an Anti-Personnel Hand Grenade into an open crew hatch is hugely impressive and effective to the Defenders. The ability to engage enemy infantry at distance, before they reach the Defenders protects those Defenders from having to fight building to building.

As a counter to this disturbing trend, there is a huge opportunity for a developing defensive drones. They can use AI to detect and destroy enemy drones.

Excellent video of our near future and you're dead right - "We humans always seem to get better at killing ourselves" ☹

Now that civilian owned drones are being armed, Will they classified as a gun or something similar, or even banned from public ownership.

That drone that he threw was insanely awesome.

Thank you Poland! We are all in this together! ❤️❤️💙💛💙💛🇱🇷🇱🇷

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The use of drones have revolutionized warfare, and because of drones we will see a quicker development of laser and energy weapon systems to engage the drones simply because missiles and weapons, like that, will not be economical. If you think about it, the simple use of inexpensive drones could become a missile defense system, defeating a multimillion dollar missile.

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