Drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become increasingly vital in the recent times. They have managed to find their sweet spot in rigorous and sensitive arena of military, agro‐based applications, logistics, and supply chain and in observation and security. This sophisticated equipment has found its fancy uses too. In areas like DIY hobby crafts, amateur and professional photography, race tracks, drones sports etc. In recent times one of the best uses that the users could make out of drones was swarm drones show. Be it local festivals or national events swarm drones show are a delight to witness. Show like these are now on their nascent phase and have huge potential. Moreover, they are eco‐friendly when compared to the fire crackers. Drones, due to their small size and high maneuverability provides a great wide coverage view of any large area. This enables the user to get a detailed holographic view of the entire space. The possibilities of integration of drones with the meta‐verse are literally infinite and would definitely add so much of dimensions of usage. In order to harness these capabilities, the hobbyists and industry personnel alike are finding their own ways to accommodate drones in their own vicinity; altering dramatically many businesses and creating new avenues. By properly implementing the technology in UAVs, many emergency situations can be mitigated in both the civilian and military applications. The exploits of implementation of drones can find its capabilities in emergency medical supplies that could be made possible irrespective of transport feasibilities. Also military and enforcement agencies would have an upper hand in monitoring movements efficiently. In desperate times such as those following a natural disaster or a terrorist attack, the concept of surveillance drones allows for accurate tracking of people without putting more lives at risk. In order to briefly understand the military usage let us consider the following example. If we go back in time and look at the history of Japanese Kamikaze pilots; the brave pilots literally amalgamated themselves with the aircraft in order to become a guided missile. At present, the modern day fighter pilots have guided weapons systems. However, with time the air defense systems have also substantially evolved. The air defense systems have longer range, highly maneuverable nearly hypersonic missile systems which create an area‐denial zone for any adverse aircraft/hostile missile system. In situation like these drones can be really useful. The operating bandwidth of ground based systems could be overwhelmed by use of cheap and disposable swarm drones. Meanwhile, another variety of drones known as loitering munitions could be made to sneak into the zone to clear lesser hostile targets. After this entire chaos has been created; the final attack from main assault party could be launched by both surface and air assault systems. This process puts no human life in danger while enabling the user complete control of the situation. Despite having immense possible benefits, there is hysteria of mass adoption of these systems due to the frequent security related incidents. UAVs could possibly be targeted by nefarious groups and if exploited, life‐threatening compromising situation may arise. This has given rise in increasing number of regulations for drone applications.


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    Title :

    Drone Technologies


    Subtitle :

    State‐of‐the‐Art, Challenges, and Future Scope



    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2023-05-22


    Size :

    19 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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