{"id":71746,"date":"2017-08-06T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T21:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-israeli-military-is-buying-copter-drones-with-machine-guns"},"modified":"2017-08-06T14:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T21:42:25","slug":"the-israeli-military-is-buying-copter-drones-with-machine-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-israeli-military-is-buying-copter-drones-with-machine-guns","title":{"rendered":"The Israeli Military is Buying Copter Drones With Machine Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FI--wFfipvA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough in drone design gives a glimpse into the future of urban warfare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Israeli military is buying small multi\u2013<\/strong>rotor drones modified to carry a machine gun, a grenade launcher and variety of other weapons to fight tomorrow\u2019s urban warfare battles. Their maker, Florida startup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukeroboticsys.com\/\">Duke Robotics<\/a>, is pitching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukeroboticsys.com\/\"> TIKAD drone<\/a> to the U.S military as well.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Raziel \u201cRazi\u201d Atuar, a 20-year veteran of the Israeli military and a reservist in the Israeli Special Forces, co-founded the company in 2014 along with a paratrooper-turned-robotic engineer and another IDF buddy. He says he was tired of watching his comrades die in chaotic street battles that also, sometimes, took the lives of civilians.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/07\/israeli-military-buying-copter-drones-machine-guns\/139199\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=bufferbd338&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/07\/israeli-militar...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough in drone design gives a glimpse into the future of urban warfare. The Israeli military is buying small multi\u2013rotor drones modified to carry a machine gun, a grenade launcher and variety of other weapons to fight tomorrow\u2019s urban warfare battles. Their maker, Florida startup Duke Robotics, is pitching the TIKAD drone to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71746","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}