The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What Seventy Downed Drones Tell Us About the New American Way of War

The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What Seventy Downed Drones Tell Us About the New American Way of War: "American fighter jets screamed over the Iraqi countryside heading for the MQ-1 Predator drone, while its crew in California stood by helplessly. What had begun as an ordinary reconnaissance mission was now taking a ruinous turn. In an instant, the jets attacked and then it was all over. The Predator, one of the Air Force’s workhorse hunter/killer robots, had been obliterated."