Supposedly ,drones are cheap. Will other nation develop this? Will that lead to terrorist organization getting hands on these mothers eventually?
RC plane with live feed? 
CDarwin - RC plane with live feed?
Not the same but still could be useful.
They already have them.
Pretty much every nation in the world with any sort of technical ability has drones, and many have drones as good as, or better than our own.
That would be my chief concern if I were in charge of our military's air defense for the next 20 years.
Imagine Iran utilizing drones to make an airborne version of their "fast boat" naval attacks. Just swarm us with more than we can engage, and attack whatever you want.
Not sure how exactly "cheap" it is but I suppose they are cheap compared to other hard wares.
LastDon - They already have them.
Pretty much every nation in the world with any sort of technical ability has drones, and many have drones as good as, or better than our own.
That would be my chief concern if I were in charge of our military's air defense for the next 20 years.
Imagine Iran utilizing drones to make an airborne version of their "fast boat" naval attacks. Just swarm us with more than we can engage, and attack whatever you want.
That`s a scary thought indeed.
circulation123 -I'm sure the military has larger scale shotgun gun rounds or exploding artillery to take out smaller, slower remote control planes.LastDon - They already have them.
Pretty much every nation in the world with any sort of technical ability has drones, and many have drones as good as, or better than our own.
That would be my chief concern if I were in charge of our military's air defense for the next 20 years.
Imagine Iran utilizing drones to make an airborne version of their "fast boat" naval attacks. Just swarm us with more than we can engage, and attack whatever you want.
That`s a scary thought indeed.
Terrorists are terrorists because they lack the resources to fight a conventional war. I spend zero time worrying about terrorists. You should consider doing the same.
Supposedly Hezbollah already has them.
I don't think they're likely to be game-changing.
Any drone big enough to do serious damage would be pretty easy for a modern nation-state to spot and shoot down.
They already do. They're known as martyrs or suicide bombers.
24 style, no.
They can make their own cheap ass drones, buy from say Iran or other such countries.
US has stealth drones that are ultra deadly. They will change the battlefield of the 21st century.
Drones are pretty much useless if you don't have air superiority.
Definately not a gamechanger that could harm the US other than random small scale terrorist attacks.
Soon they will be able to print their own drones with a 3d-printer. Just a matter of time...
s98ronin - Soon they will be able to print their own drones with a 3d-printer. Just a matter of time...
you couple that with the mock battleship or air craft carrier that the Iranians made and we could lose our world championship belt.
Iran supposedly reverse engineered the America one they brought down a year or two ago. As far as them using them the way America does they are a very long way out from doing that IMO. Plus America would put up some real jets and knock them out the sky. We can use drones cause we controls the air.
What about the possibilities of someone infiltrating our borders? Build them with 3D printer or something and using it in major cities? Can they make them unnoticed in the USA? Maybe crude ones? I don`t know how they would get firepowers needed for offensive drones unnoticed though.
Doesn't America already control drones and put them to regular use?