Long-endurance military drone (Predator)
Dron militar de larga duración (Predator) y armado
- Date
- 1994 · confidence high
- Place
- General Atomics, San Diego, California, United States
- Credited to
- Abraham Karem (design), General Atomics; armed with Hellfire missiles in 2001
- People
- 👤 Abraham Karem1937–
- Field
- Conflict
What it is
A satellite-controlled unmanned aircraft capable of surveillance for 24 hours and, from 2001, of firing missiles. It changed remote warfare and surveillance.
What it led to
- Remote warfare and targeted drone killings
- Cheap drone warfare in Ukraine and the Middle East (Bayraktar, Shahed, FPV)
- The ethical debate over autonomous weapons
Built on
- Unmanned military aircraft (Kettering Bug and Queen Bee)1916-1935 (Kettering Bug, 1918)
- Global Positioning System (GPS)1978-1995
- satellite communications
- remotely piloted aircraft
Made possible
- National-scale medical drone delivery (Zipline)2016
- armed drones
- drone swarms
- combat FPV drones