Pentagon Tests Explosive Drones in Fort Benning Pilot Competition
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Updated · NBC News · May 27
Pentagon Tests Explosive Drones in Fort Benning Pilot Competition
6 articles · Updated · NBC News · May 27
Fort Benning hosted a military pilot competition aimed at helping the Pentagon choose explosive drones for battlefield use.
Drone operators flew quadcopters on one-way strike missions through abandoned buildings and pine forests before crashing them into mannequin targets dressed in military gear.
The event reflects the Pentagon’s push to procure attack drones for what the report describes as a new kind of war.
How can advanced militaries defend against cheap, 'unjammable' drones that cost less than the missiles used to stop them?
As AI-piloted drones learn on the battlefield, who is responsible when the machine makes a fatal mistake?
With a $54.6B push for autonomous weapons, is the US creating a safer world or just a more complex arms race?