{"id":131959,"date":"2021-12-07T23:25:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T07:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/kamikaze-drones-a-new-weapon-brings-power-and-peril-to-the-u-s-military"},"modified":"2021-12-07T23:25:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T07:25:46","slug":"kamikaze-drones-a-new-weapon-brings-power-and-peril-to-the-u-s-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/kamikaze-drones-a-new-weapon-brings-power-and-peril-to-the-u-s-military","title":{"rendered":"Kamikaze drones: A new weapon brings power and peril to the U.S. military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kamikaze-drones-a-new-weapon-brings-power-and-peril-to-the-u-s-military.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Americans have become accustomed to images of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/u-s-drone-strike-kabul-mistakenly-killed-civilians-not-terrorists-n1279476\" target=\"_blank\">Hellfire missiles<\/a> raining down from Predator and Reaper drones to hit terrorist targets in Pakistan or Yemen. But that was yesterday\u2019s drone war.<\/p>\n<p>A revolution in unmanned aerial vehicles is unfolding, and the U.S. has lost its monopoly on the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Some experts believe the spread of the semi-autonomous weapons will change ground warfare as profoundly as the machine gun did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have become accustomed to images of Hellfire missiles raining down from Predator and Reaper drones to hit terrorist targets in Pakistan or Yemen. But that was yesterday\u2019s drone war. A revolution in unmanned aerial vehicles is unfolding, and the U.S. has lost its monopoly on the technology. Some experts believe the spread of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}