Part 4: A Third Drone Age?Concerns and Visions for the Future
Concerns
24 Domestic Drones and Domestic Threat: Urban Life in the Drone Age
Abstract
Drones have emerged as an established feature of contemporary global battlefields. Comprising a growing ecosystem of diverse platforms, attention is increasingly paid to the rising interest in and deployment of small, commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) drones. In recognition of growing non-state actor usage of COTS drones in surveillance and weaponized capacities both in and beyond the battlefield, concern continues to grow around the potential portability and expansion of drone-enabled harm. This chapter examines drone threats in domestic urban locales in the age ...
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