"In war zones, ordinary commercially-available drones are used for extraordinary reconnaissance and information gathering. They can also be used for bombings - a drone carrying an explosive charge is potentially a powerful weapon. At the same time asymmetric warfare has become the norm - with l...

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1. Verfasser:	Grossman, Nicholas (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Schlagworte:	Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles. Avions de combat sans pilote. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science. Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"In war zones, ordinary commercially-available drones are used for extraordinary reconnaissance and information gathering. They can also be used for bombings - a drone carrying an explosive charge is potentially a powerful weapon. At the same time asymmetric warfare has become the norm - with large states increasingly fighting marginal terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere. Here, Nicholas Grossman shows how we are entering the age of the drone terrorist - groups such as Hezbollah are already using them in the Middle East. Grossman will analyse the ways in which the United States, Israel and other advanced militaries use aerial drones and ground-based robots to fight non-state actors (e.g. ISIS, al Qaeda, the Iraqi and Afghan insurgencies, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.) and how these groups, as well as individual terrorists, are utilizing less advanced commercially-available drones to fight powerful state opponents. Robotics has huge implications for the future of security, terrorism and international relations and this will be essential reading on the subject of terrorism and drone warfare."--Back cover
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-210) and index.
ISBN:	9781838608422 1838608427