A UAV Roadmap For The Future

3 Game Changes In The U.S. Army's UAV Road Map -- Popular Mechanics

If the Army's plans for UAVs go as planned, the following trends will develop between now and 2035.

Unmanned aerial systems could become so individualized that every soldier will have one.

The Army envisions a 1:1 ratio of soldiers to handheld UAVs

In an ideal world, every soldier will have a flying robot. “We're talking about getting into nanotechnology that will allow us to reduce unmanned systems' size to the point that a soldier would not have to stand up or launch one by hand,” Carlile says. “In the future they will have something man-packable that a soldier can carry. They might even have the ability to have a soldier fire his own personal weapon and that weapon would have a guidance system to help him hit his target, completely from defilade or under total concealment.”

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My Comment: I personally like the first one .... a UAV for every soldier.