Drone strike facts for kids

A Predator drone firing a Hellfire missile

A drone strike is an attack by one or more unmanned combat aerial vehicles or weaponized commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). It usually involves firing a missile or releasing a bomb at a target. The drone may be equipped with such weapons as guided bombs, cluster bombs, incendiary devices, air-to-surface missiles, air-to-air missiles, anti-tank guided missiles or other types of precision-guided munitions.

Since the post-9/11 era, the United States have used drone strikes in such countries as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, and Yemen using air-to-surface missiles.

Drones strikes are used for targeted killings by several countries. Drone strikes are often used to kill terrorists.

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  Weaponizing of DJI Phantom commercial videography UAVs

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  Turkish made Bayraktar TB2 at Baku Victory Parade of 2020, Azerbaijan