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Washington -- A decade ago, the United States had a virtual monopoly on drones.
Not anymore.The explosion in drone technology promises to change the way nations conduct war and threatens to begin a new arms race as governments scramble to counterbalance their adversaries.
Advantage
Can be used in high risk areas or difficult to access.
No action required of pilots in the combat zone.
Disadvantages:
The satellite link can be hacked and thus breaking the communication channel between the operator and the UAV ground and intercept your data, when insurgents agreed to the UAV through SkyGrabber, April 1st domestic program whose cost was $ 25 or introduce a virus to disable, as in October 2011 when the fleet of Predators was immobilized by a virus attack informático.5
A time delay between transmission and reception of instructions for processing and execution, which in critical condition can be fatal.
Influence in performance for physical phenomena such as solar activity which causes changes in the ionosphere.
Flight Capacity limited by the type of fuel or energy source and navigation system.
The possibility that artificial intelligence could determine for itself targets to attack.
The insensitivity of the consequences of war, to stay away from conflict.
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The high cost of acquisition and maintenance
The maintenance of these devices is not less, in June 2011 the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection U.S. launched two surveillance programs: one drone, based on the RQ-9 Reaper unmanned and another in a plane Cessna. The Reaper flew 10,000 hours, which led to the arrest of 4865 dealers and 238 undocumented drogas.10 This represented 1.5% of the total number of illegal immigrants caught in the same time period (327 577) at a cost of 3600 per hour, calculated at $ 7,054 for each illegal immigrant or drug dealer captured, 11 while the plane equipped with an infrared sensor (FLIR) acquired and operated by $ 1.2 million, secured the arrest of 6500-8000 illegal aliens and the seizure of $ 54 million in marijuana. Those numbers calculated a cost per illegal alien for the Cessna 230 dollars abroad, 12 per $ 7,054 of the Reaper.
These facts have not been used so far for civil use, when they have been authorized
s now killing people without knowing who they are, and it is enough for suspicion of association with terrorist groups. The agency does not clearly define what it means for the rules "suspicion" and "association".