Pre-programmed with the requirements and constraints of the mission, the advanced drone takes off and American commanders let it do its thing. Unlike the MQ-1 Predator and the MQ-9 Reaper, the MQ-1000 is capable of completely autonomous action, right down to targeting and combat. Special Operations Forces are already en route and, with an armed enemy drone in the skies ahead of them, possibly in peril.īut the Americans have an ace up their sleeve: an advanced Air Force MQ-1000.
At a hush-hush "joint maritime operations center" onshore, analysts pour over digital images captured by the unmanned sub and, according to a Pentagon report, recognize the welding robot "as one recently stolen and acquired by rebel antigovernment forces." An elite quick-reaction force is assembled at a nearby airfield and dispatched to the scene, while a second unmanned drone is deployed to provide persistent surveillance of the area of operations.Īt the joint maritime operations center, signals intelligence analysts detect the mothership launching a Russian Tipchak - a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aircraft with "U.S.-derived systems and avionics" and outfitted with air-to-air as well as air-to-surface missiles.
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