This could ultimately mean “omnipresent” surveillance, Mr. Marks said in remarks Thursday at the McCain Institute in Washington. “We might have a capability that is so pervasive that we have ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] on top of everybody all the time,” he said.
“What we are doing now will not go away,” he added. “We are now defining what our new ‘normal’ looks like.”
Click the link to see more: Not your average drone: new technology the US military is developing (+video) - CSMonitor.comPoints:
- “…drones have worked well for the US military in wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, where enemy fighters had little to no air-defense capabilities.”
- “…it’s actually not too hard to shoot down America’s current crop of go-to drones, like the Predator and the Reaper, since they don’t have any stealth technology.”
- “The new RQ-180, funded in the Air Force’s classified budget, would have cutting-edge stealth technology, so it could evade radar systems in a way that the Predator and Reaper drones cannot. It would also have the ability to be deployed on electronic attack missions (targeting radar and communication systems),”
