Miniaturizing The Drone War By Using Smaller Missiles

Mini-Missile Promises To Shrink The Drone War -- The Danger Room

Get ready to shrink the drone war. The Army and Marine Corps’ medium-sized spy drones may soon become killers, thanks to a successful flight test by a mini-drone strapped with a 12-pound bomb.

Raytheon, the defense giant, has been working since 2009 on what it calls a Small Tactical Munition — as the name suggests, it’s a bomb tiny enough to attach onto the military’s fleet of small to medium drones like the Shadow. Weighing 12 pounds and standing 22 inches, the guided munition has the potential to expand the drone war dramatically, giving battalion-sized units that fly small drones the ability to kill people, like the remote pilots who fly the iconic Predators and Reapers do.

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Update: Mini bombs could take drone warfare to a whole new level -- Ubergizmo

My Comment: I can easily visualize the impact that these weapon platforms can have. The enemy is on the other side of a field or small town .... send in a small drone that will locate the enemy and eliminate it with a small drone strike. My prediction .... small military units and small FOBs are going to be equipped with these weapons, and they will be using them on a regular basis.