Israel's Heron UAVIsraeli Robots Remake Battlefield -- Wall Street Journal
Nation Forges Ahead in Deploying Unmanned Military Vehicles by Air, Sea and Land.
TEL AVIV, Israel – Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare.
Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and its high-tech industry have long made Israel one of the world's leading innovators of military robotics.
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My Comment: The sentence that I liked was the following ....
.... Unlike the U.S. and other militaries, where UAVs are flown by certified, costly-to-train fighter pilots, Israeli defense companies have recently built their UAVs to allow an average 18-year-old recruit with just a few months' training to pilot them ....
There are many other good lines and quotes from this story. Read it all .... Israel is paving the way for smaller countries on how to develop their own UAV/Robot army/fleet.
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