Originally published at: Colombia Fighting Back on Drug Cartels' Drone Warfare - AVweb
Government forces are playing catch-up in the drone arms race.
The advances that small drones have made here and in the Ukraine as offensive tactical weapons has me concerned. How long until bad actors, gangs & terrorists, utilize them here in the US?
Terrorists don’t need permits !
And a government that can declare anyone it wants an “enemy combatant” is totally going to use this only for good. Maybe red tape isn’t so bad–you know “transparency” and “accountability”?
Drones have become airborne IED’s. Ukraine has clearly demonstrated the ability of drones to wreak havoc on a much larger and more powerful military neighbor. The US military needs to wake up and see the future. What good is a fleet of stealth fighters or bombers if a few terrorists can roll up to the base fence line and take them out with a few drones? If Ukraine can transport a fleet of drones through a highly restrictive country and destroy aircraft over 2,000 miles away, how easy would it be to do even more damage in this country? Instead of wasting billions of dollars on a new F47 seventh generation fighter, we need to spend a whole lot less on systems and tactics to use drones as weapons as well as devising effective defenses against them.
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