kamikaze drone
English
Noun
kamikaze drone (plural kamikaze drones)
- (military, informal) A drone used as loitering munition; a suicide drone.
- 2014, Peter Bergen; Daniel Rothenberg, editors, Drone Wars, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 302:
- This aircraft would essentially function as a kamikaze drone, crashing into its target and detonating its explosives upon impact, and did not appear to be much of a step up from the single-use drones Iran had years earlier.
- 2020, Michael J. Boyle, The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 138:
- One such kamikaze drone is called the Switchblade; it was introduced by AeroVironment in 2012 and sold widely to the US military.
Translations
drone used as loitering munition
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