How unconventional warfare demands are changing the CUAS and drone development landscape
Epirus’ Leonidas technology platform. (Photo: Epirus)
The use of drones in unconventional ways is accelerating technological advances and countermeasures as military planners try to stay ahead of the drone revolution in military affairs.
In early June, more than 100 Ukrainian drones concealed in hired lorries with remotely detachable roofs were driven to locations near multiple Russian airbases. Ukrainian forces then launched the drones remotely and commanded them — in some cases from thousands of miles away — to attack Russian strategic bombers. At least 13 Russian aircraft were destroyed according to Kyiv.
Meanwhile, as part of Tel Aviv’s surprise pre-emptive aerial strike against Tehran later the same month, Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency smuggled hundred of drone parts into Iran in luggage, trucks and even shipping containers and constructed a drone fleet inside Iranian territory,
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