2010 Trends in Robotic Warfare

There is no doubt that the United States Departmentthemselves away, thanks to their little robotic toys. But
of Defense is on the leading edge of robotic warfare.in the future the terrorists will also have unmanned
In fact, the United States government hasaerial systems. We also noted that Iran had used
hyper-spaced to all other nations in the robotic warfareunmanned aerial vehicles to fly over a US aircraft
realm. We now have unmanned aerial vehicles whichcarrier and take pictures sending back live video feed.
can do aerial refueling by themselves. We haveThe Chinese have also tried to copy some of our
unmanned aerial vehicles which can land themselves,most advanced and futuristic combat UAVs, capable
and even flight control systems, which can take over ifof air to air combat in the future. The Russians,
half the wing of an airplane falls off during UAVPakistanis, Chinese, French, Germans, Israelis, English,
combat operations.Italians, and even researchers in Spain all have their
We have tele-robotic anti-IED robots as well. We alsoown UAV systems now.
have unmanned underwater vehicles, and a wholeNeedless to say, in 2010 the United States Department
host of interesting and incredible technologies in thisof Defense will have no choice but to figure out ways
space. One of the most interesting trends in 2010 thatto shoot down enemy UAVs, or disable them in the air
you will see is that other nations are now copying us.using focused beams of energy to fry their electronics.
Even our enemies such as Al Qaeda and the TalibanRobotic warfare is getting quite interesting, and that is
are trying to use model aircraft as UAVs to spy onwhy our think tank produced a book on the subject,
the US troops.which is free to anyone who e-mails me.
Luckily, all they've done so far has been to give