Terrorism: The Different Types Of Military Drones
“Drones went from 1 every 40 days, to 1 every 4 days once the Obama administration took office, increasing by 13 folds.” (Paltow) This quote is being given to explain how the drone evolution has grown in fighting terrorists. Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are used for many different things in our world today. The drone originally invented by Reginald Denny and started as hot air balloons and worked down to the small sized drones that we see today. There are many types of military drones, for example, hunter drones, killing drones, surveillance drones,etc. Some drones are used to gather information, see things that most people cannot see, save lives, kill enemies and even capture movies. Military drones are used for intelligence,
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Some issues of them are: limited laws, can't gather information as easy, can kill innocent bystanders, don't always kill the target and they're very costly. Laws for drones are very slim, anyone can pretty much do what they want with drones in life today. When drones are used in military warfare, they take down the target(s) and then they go in to gather what they can for information, which isn’t much, drones can see things but they mostly can’t pick anything up for evidence. Even though drones are meant to save lives, they also end some too. In the movie, “Eye in the Sky” by Gavin Hood, a young girl who was selling bread who is used as a shield by a famous terrorist in Nairobi, Kenya. The pilot is faced with a tough decision on whether or not to make the kill shot and risk killing the young girl or to not make the shot. The pilot decides to use a 4 step rule set that the controller of the drone has to follow called, “double effect rule.” This rule gives 4 “what if” questions that will tell the pilot whether or not it is okay to still go ahead and take down target, along with innocent bystanders. In the end, the shot is made and the young girl is killed, which created a huge public uproar about the use of these drones in warfare and the moral issues within these Unmanned drone attacks. After this movie had launched, many ask who is really responsible for these attacks. Most
Some issues of them are: limited laws, can't gather information as easy, can kill innocent bystanders, don't always kill the target and they're very costly. Laws for drones are very slim, anyone can pretty much do what they want with drones in life today. When drones are used in military warfare, they take down the target(s) and then they go in to gather what they can for information, which isn’t much, drones can see things but they mostly can’t pick anything up for evidence. Even though drones are meant to save lives, they also end some too. In the movie, “Eye in the Sky” by Gavin Hood, a young girl who was selling bread who is used as a shield by a famous terrorist in Nairobi, Kenya. The pilot is faced with a tough decision on whether or not to make the kill shot and risk killing the young girl or to not make the shot. The pilot decides to use a 4 step rule set that the controller of the drone has to follow called, “double effect rule.” This rule gives 4 “what if” questions that will tell the pilot whether or not it is okay to still go ahead and take down target, along with innocent bystanders. In the end, the shot is made and the young girl is killed, which created a huge public uproar about the use of these drones in warfare and the moral issues within these Unmanned drone attacks. After this movie had launched, many ask who is really responsible for these attacks. Most