{"id":72199,"date":"2017-08-26T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/testing-drones-in-combat"},"modified":"2017-08-26T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T06:03:00","slug":"testing-drones-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/testing-drones-in-combat","title":{"rendered":"Testing Drones in Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/testing-drones-in-combat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is also available in: <a href=\"http:\/\/i-hls.com\/he\/archives\/78267\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/testing-drones-in-combat.png\" alt=\"he\" title=\"\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea\"> \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea ( Hebrew )<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a few months, the U.S Air Force and SOFWERX will pit <a href=\"http:\/\/ausr.i-hls.com\/\" title=\"uav\" target=\"_blank\">UAV<\/a> s against each other in a rumble-style experiment to gather data on <a href=\"http:\/\/ausr.i-hls.com\/\" title=\"drone\" target=\"_blank\">drone<\/a> operations, the Air Force\u2019s secretary, Heather Wilson, said. The competition, called the ThunderDrone Rapid Prototyping Event will \u201cinvestigate forms, platforms, effects and data science for small unmanned aerial vehicles,\u201d said Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>According to nationaldefensemagazine.org, SOFWERX, an initiative that facilitates rapid prototyping and technology experimentation between U.S. Special Operations Command and members of non-traditional industry and academia, is planning events related to ThunderDrone beginning in early September with a technology exposition. The event is meant to help \u201ccompletely change the face of <a href=\"http:\/\/ausr.i-hls.com\/\" title=\"drone\" target=\"_blank\">drone<\/a> warfare,\u201d and will be \u201ca living test bed\u201d for creating a <a href=\"http:\/\/ausr.i-hls.com\/\" title=\"drone\" target=\"_blank\">drone<\/a> marketplace, according to SOFWERX. Additionally, it will enable experimentation along with rapid prototyping.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/i-hls.com\/archives\/78264\">http:\/\/i-hls.com\/archives\/78264<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is also available in: \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea ( Hebrew ) In a few months, the U.S Air Force and SOFWERX will pit UAV s against each other in a rumble-style experiment to gather data on drone operations, the Air Force\u2019s secretary, Heather Wilson, said. The competition, called the ThunderDrone Rapid Prototyping Event will \u201cinvestigate forms, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72199","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\/72199","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}