Over 20 Countries Developing Weaponized Drones

Currently, more than 20 countries are developing military drones, or UAVs, including Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran  and China.

Drone weapon dominance is not limited in the way nuclear weapons was. Nuclear weapons require high-level engineering to make the warhead as well as the rocket that propels it, and the material required is also rare, costly and protected.

Drones can be made by any individual or team. Progress in drone technology is much more open than some other serious forms of weapons. Any country could rival any other in drone weapon technology, theoretically.

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Drones as weapons are commonly paired with artificial intelligence that intelligently and autonomously launches missiles.

Drones have to a degree defined US military action in outside Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years.

Drone technology is a rapidly growing area of business. Google and Facebook are investing.

By Roman Woolf

The Speaker