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Many countries including Italy, Turkey, China and UK. Also as another commenter said, there is little different between a drone and a cruise missile (other tha
by steve19 10y ago
Many countries including Italy, Turkey, China and UK.
Also as another commenter said, there is little different between a drone and a cruise missile (other than reuse).
- dogma1138 10y agoNone of those countries, with the exception of China operate armed drones. The UK's drone is the Skywatcher 450 which is a homebuilt version of the Israeli Hermes 450 and it is not armed. Italy's homegrown drones are still in development and are primarily for export and by default unarmed, it does operate a few Israeli Hermes UAV which are again unarmed. China has quite a bit of UAV's they seem to mirror the same form and function as the US ones, they also routinely buy UAV's from other countries primarily Israel but the only "armed" UAV that Israel has sold China is technically a loitering munition. And while China did showcase a few drones that were armed it doesn't actually operates them anywhere, not that it won't in the future but currently it's pretty much only the US which uses armed drones on well a daily basis.
- steve19 10y agoWho said anything about homebuilt? You have just introduced that concept. It makes no difference who makes them. Few countries make subs, but plenty of countries field them. Italy has, for example, an armed and an unarmed squadron of Predators. They have even used armed Predators against ISIS in Iraq.
- ionised 10y agoThe UK carried out a strike against one of its citizens in Syria, so they most certainly do use armed drones. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/07/uk-forces-airstrike-killed-isis-briton-reyaad-khan-syria https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/07/uk-forces-ai... It was a US-built drone, but it was a British mission with British pilots.