The Marines are about to arm their tactical drone, the AAI RQ-7B Shadow. They were going to use an off-the-shelf precision-guided killer missile but they mysteriously changed their mind at the last minute. Nobody knows what they are cooking.
A lot’s made of the drones that power many of the US Army’s attacks these days, the missile-equipped UAVs that attack and surveille under the veil of silence and cover of cloud. But there are other, smaller Army bots out there. Specifically, in a testing ground known as the microaviary.
Florida-based company Arcturus has managed to create a tiny drone small enough for small military units to command. If this passes the military testing stage, this, along with other small-scale armed drones, could see the expansion of drone warfare.
How do you monitor the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted criminal, deep inside a radar-infested region of a country that doesn’t want you there? With this stealth drone, which gave the US eyes on Osama’s compound from above.