A drone strike is an air strike delivered by one or more unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) or weaponized commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Only the United States, Israel, China, Iran, Italy, India, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, 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, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen using air-to-surface missiles, but drone warfare has increasingly been deployed by Turkey and Azerbaijan. Drones strikes are used for targeted killings by several countries.In 2020 a Turkish-made UAV loaded with explosives detected and attacked Haftar's forces in Libya with its artificial intelligence without command, according to a report from the UN Security Council’s Panel of Experts on Libya, published in March 2021. It was considered the first attack carried out by the UAVs on their own initiative.
So the US Navy has shot down a drone with a Laser... 30 second video is here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20011041-501465.html
Can anyone identify the major obstacles in such an effort. Seems like tracking/radar type software would be very similar to conventional...
A UN official has said that US predator drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be illegal. Can a country serve as a base for a non-state entity which is organizing attacks against another country and nevertheless be protected under international law? Can a country which is the target...