Drone warfare facts for kids
Drone warfare is a form of warfare using unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) or weaponized commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or unmanned surface vehicles. The United States, United Kingdom, Israel, China, South Korea, Iran, Iraq, Italy, France, India, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and Poland are known to have manufactured operational UCAVs as of 2019.
Drone attacks can be conducted by commercial UCAVs dropping bombs, firing a missile, or crashing into a target. Since the turn of the century, most drone strikes have been carried out by the US military in such countries as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and Libya using air-to-surface missiles, but drone warfare has increasingly been deployed by Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Azerbaijan and by militant groups such as the Houthis. Drone strikes are used for assassinations by several countries.
See also
- Anti-drone systems using: electronic jamming and hi-jacking systems, directed-energy weapons (mainly laser), kinetic projectiles, netting, trained eagles etc.
- Counter unmanned air system (C-UAS)
- Anti-aircraft warfare#AUDS § Notes
- Electronic beam
- Directed-energy weapon, planned to also be used against drones
- Laser weapon: Anti-drone systems
- Silent Hunter (laser weapon), Chinese anti-drone laser weapon
- Electronic warfare (EW) - jamming & hi-jacking
- Bukovel (counter unmanned aircraft system), Ukrainian anti-drone electronic warfare system
- EDM4S (Electronic Drone Mitigation 4 - System), Lithuanian portable EW anti-drone device
- Malyuk assault rifle, Riff model: Ukrainian man-portable battery-powered anti-drone weapon
- R-330Zh Zhitel, Russian truck-mounted EW jamming communication station
- Kinetic systems
- Slinger (weapon system), Australian anti-drone system using an auto-cannon
- Large systems & manufacturers
- Drone Dome, Israeli anti-aircraft including anti-drone system developed by Rafael ADS
- DronesVision, Taiwanese arms manufacturer, specialising in UAV and anti-UAV technologies
- Indrajaal Autonomous Drone Defence Dome, Indian AI anti-drone system
- ZALA Aero Group, Russian arms manufacturer, specialising in UAV and anti-UAV EW systems
- Other related topics
- Non-combatant Casualty Value
- PlayStation mentality
- Public opinion about US drone attacks
- Military robot
- Unmanned surface vehicle
- Zanana
- Civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes
