The next frontier in drone warfare? A Soviet-era crop duster - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
An An-2 parked in the snow. Credit: www.ariliners.net via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. In September 2020, on the second day of the six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, the Armenian defense forces published a video of one of their units deploying a surface-to-air missile system to target a low-flying, slow-moving object—a drone. But what the soldiers shot down was no cutting-edge autonomous weapon: They had destroyed a propeller-driven, single-engine biplane first produced in the 1940s by the former Soviet Union for agricultural monit...
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