US Navy Develops Cannon-launched ‘Swarming’ Drones
11th July 2015
The US Navy is developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, that can be launched from a cannon and “swarm” in a co-ordinated attack.
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Wings unfold once the drones are in the air and then they can fly in formation.
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US use of military drones has attracted criticism from human rights groups, who say that despite their highly targeted nature, innocent non-combatants are often killed in the process.
Innocent non-combatants are almost always killed in a war. Why this should come as a surprise to these people escapes me. But we live in a time where much less of that goes on, by orders of magnitude.