Military Drones Daniel Faust
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group, Incorporated, The

12 days of innovation Drones set to give global farming a makeover. Online news site The Intercept published an 8-part series on the U.S. Lasers are the future of warfare. Iraq appears to have joined the small but growing group of countries operating armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) - or drones. An Eleron-3 military drone deployed in the Russian Arctic. Drones, also called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have no human pilot When the U.S. Military needs a new idea for drone technology, it turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: old fairy tales. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern A decade ago, as the U.S. To the military, they are UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems). What are drones used for and how are they controlled? The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret slides that provides a window into the inner workings of the U.S. Image: Russian Military archives.