{"id":14081,"date":"2016-04-05T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=14081"},"modified":"2016-04-05T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:42:52","slug":"future-of-warfare-first-recorded-use-of-explosive-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/05\/future-of-warfare-first-recorded-use-of-explosive-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of Warfare: First Recorded Use of “Explosive” Drone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First there was IED’s, then VBIEDS, then Drones, then Drones Armed with Firearms, now we have “Explosive” Drones. Although the title of the article uses the word “Suicide” Drone, I see that as a misnomer; who is committing Suicide? If they are using the word as you would in describing a “Suicide Bomber”, the Operator of the device would be blowing himself up as part of the attack. Here, the Operator of the Drone is not Blowing himself up (i.e. ‘Committing Suicide’), he is somewhere at a safe distance operating the drone. An inanimate object like a Drone cannot commit “Suicide” it can only be used as a Weapon, thus the term used should just be an “Explosive Drone” or as the term is used later in the article, “Remotely Piloted Kamikaze Drone”. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/YmHCQg5sveA<\/a><\/p>\n

An unnerving sight appeared Monday during fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. What appeared to be an Israeli-made\u00a0suicide drone\u00a0hit a bus carrying Armenian soldiers and then exploded.<\/p>\n

There is an\u00a0unconfirmed video appearing to show the strike, which killed seven Armenian volunteers<\/a> according to RIA Novosti. And the drone captured in the video looks a lot<\/em> like<\/a> an IAI Harop \u2014 a canister-launched flying bomb which can detect\u00a0the source of radio transmissions or be manually guided onto a target.<\/p>\n

An Armenian Ministry of Defense spokesman alleged Armenia is using Harop drones<\/a> in the fighting.<\/p>\n

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f the footage is accurate, it\u2019s a rare and alarming glimpse at one of the 21st century\u2019s most significant trends in warfare \u2014 the increasing proliferation of lethal drones beyond the arsenals of advanced militaries.\u00a0Small armies that do not have the resources to develop combat drones on their own can now buy them elsewhere, and send them on one-way missions in very real, very violent wars.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s worth nothing that suicide drones are hardly new weapons (they go back to World War I<\/a>). And arguably, there are only a few major differences between a remotely-piloted kamikaze drone<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 guided by an operator on the ground \u2014 and a cruise missile or precision-guided bomb.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most large militaries have deadlier, faster and longer-range precision weapons than suicide drones. One\u00a0distinction\u00a0is that the Harop\u2019s payload is smaller \u2014 it weights 51 pounds \u2014 and they cost much\u00a0less than most\u00a0precision-guided missiles when factoring in the cost for the aircraft needed to carry them.\u00a0A Harop, on the other hand, simply carries itself and loiters above the battlefield, ready to plunge onto a target.<\/p>\n

Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought sporadically for Nagorno-Karabakh since a brutal war in the early 1990s. Both countries are former Soviet republics, and when the Soviet Union cracked up, Christian Armenians in the region broke away from predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

The current fighting may be the worst since the 1990s. Armenian Pres. Serzh Sarksyan said the clashes could escalate to \u201cfull-scale war<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Russia has a military base in Armenia and is a close ally, but has also supplied tanks\u00a0to Azerbaijan, making the Kremlin an arms dealer for two states which have hoarded weapons to fight \u2026 each other.<\/p>\n

Israel is another player, which sells drones and air-defense systems to Azerbaijan in exchange for Caspian oil and safe access for Israeli\u00a0intelligence agents<\/a>. And like Israel, the Azerbaijani government is wary of Iran. Then there\u2019s the fact that\u00a0Israel has positioned itself as a source for advanced drones on par with the best Western versions \u2014 but more affordable for poorer countries. It has another suicide drone known as the Harpy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael has taken the same capital, technology-intensive route to drone development as the United States, producing UAVs that fill key roles within a broader surveillance-strike complex<\/a>,\u201d The National Interest<\/em>noted in 2015.<\/p>\n

Emphasis on strike<\/em>. Israeli drones are designed for patrolling vulnerable borders and fighting quick, sporadic wars that occur every few years. Turns out, Azerbaijan too has borders to protect and fights short wars every couple of\u00a0years.\u00a0What\u2019s far more foreboding is that both it and Armenia have been gearing up<\/a> to fight a bigger one.<\/p>\n

Read the Original Article at War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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First there was IED’s, then VBIEDS, then Drones, then Drones Armed with Firearms, now we have “Explosive” Drones. Although the title of the article uses the word “Suicide” Drone, I see that as a misnomer; who is committing Suicide? If they are using the word as you would in describing a “Suicide Bomber”, the Operator…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,2086,7561,4479,4333,2004,1898,24],"tags":[10899,10900,10901,10902,10903,1545,3913],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}