{"id":75110,"date":"2018-01-10T23:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/first-ever-drone-swarm-attack-has-struck-russian-military-bases-sources-claim"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:04:23","slug":"first-ever-drone-swarm-attack-has-struck-russian-military-bases-sources-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/first-ever-drone-swarm-attack-has-struck-russian-military-bases-sources-claim","title":{"rendered":"First-Ever Drone Swarm Attack Has Struck Russian Military Bases, Sources Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-ever-drone-swarm-attack-has-struck-russian-military-bases-sources-claim.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since technological advancements made drones possible, people have warned of the potential dangers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nightmarish-video-of-gun-firing-drone-to-be-investigated-by-us-aviation-authorities\">weaponised UAVs<\/a> (unmanned aerial vehicles), which could effectively become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/chilling-drone-video-shows-a-disturbing-vision-of-an-ai-controlled-future\">murderous slaughterbots<\/a> we need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/us-military-peregrine-falcons-hunting-killer-drones\">defend ourselves against<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it looks like those fears have become a reality. The Russian Ministry of Defence claims its forces in Syria were attacked a week ago by a swarm of home-made drones \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/swarm-home-made-drones-bombed-russian-airbase\/\">first time<\/a> such a coordinated assault has been reported in a military action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mod.mil.rus\/posts\/2031218563787556\">According to<\/a> the Ministry of Defence, Russian forces at the Khmeimim air base and Tartus naval facility \u201csuccessfully warded off a terrorist attack with massive application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)\u201d last Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/swarm-home-made-drones-strike-military-base-first-attack-kind-russia-uavs\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/swarm-home-made-drones-strike-mi...ussia-uavs<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since technological advancements made drones possible, people have warned of the potential dangers of weaponised UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), which could effectively become murderous slaughterbots we need to defend ourselves against. Now, it looks like those fears have become a reality. The Russian Ministry of Defence claims its forces in Syria were attacked a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75110","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\/75110","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=75110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75125,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75110\/revisions\/75125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}