Drones, AI and Big Data Transforming the Warfare Future
The warfare techniques have undergone a complete makeover ever since the entry of Big Data and IoT (Internet Of Things) in this industry. It has enhanced not in just the way opponents engage in a war but also the fronts on which they get engaged, though the dilemma of its usage is still debatable.
Taranis is an autonomous stealth drones by BAE Systems. It is named after the Celtic God of Thunder. This drone when programmed with a flight path in a pre-selected area can fly, identify threat, target it and send an alert to the human operator. The human operator reviews and then approves if required for the attack. Taranis then fires and destroy the target threat with a missile and flies back home.
As of today military widely uses drones for conducting surveillance, attack hostile target, spot submarines and mines. With advantages like being smaller and stealthier these drones have been also found successful in delivering humanitarian aid to distant places. As it is distantly controlled the safety of the pilot is also enhanced.
Though this fact doesn’t thrill many people, owing to the possibility of killing, damaging or destroying autonomously. A huge list of people have written an open letter to UN (United Nations) to crease the use of these weapons as it’s not clear how and where human intervention or approval is sought by the machine. The human intellect can’t be fully replaced by these machines.
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