Some experts believe the spread of low-cost, light-weight 'killer' drones will change ground warfare as profoundly as the machine gun did.
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah — The killer drone whooshed out of its launch tube, spreading its carbon wings and shooting into the sky.
NBC News traveled to a military testing center for exclusive access to the first-ever public demonstration of the Switchblade 300, a small, low-cost “kamikaze” drone made by AeroVironment that sources say has been used quietly for years by the U.S. military in targeted killing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.Hellfire missiles
Some experts believe the spread of these semi-autonomous weapons will change ground warfare as profoundly as the machine gun did. The U.S. military could not have fought the way it did in Iraq or Afghanistan if the enemy had killer drones. America’s next battlefield opponent is likely to have them. And terrorists will eventually get them, too — a possibility that has homeland security officials scrambling to find a solution, given that there is no surefire defense against them.
Nawabi said he’s been told the Taliban and others who have been on the receiving end refer to it as an angry bird or a buzzing bee. For the NBC News demonstration, AeroVironment used the Puma, which is launched by hand like a large model airplane, and provides high resolution, color imagery of the ground. The images beamed back from the Puma’s cameras made clear that an operator could see the expression on the face of his target in the seconds before the Switchblade struck.
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