Loitering munitions are the weapon systems where the munition loiters around the target area for some time and attacks only once a target is located. Such types of weapons are finding increasing footprints in modern warfare, which are intelligent, destructive and unconventional.
As a Russian soldier, tries to surf the Internet on a stolen Ukrainian smartphone, he hears a distant buzzing noise, like a swarm of bees. It gets louder — then suddenly, intense flashes light up the tent. Blasts rip through the frigid air. As he looks outside just in time to see three small spider-like “octocopter” drones, controlled by Ukrainian hobbyists lurking nearby, whiz away as acrid clouds of smoke billow from burning supply trucks.
Welcome to the world of virtual warfare.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine illustrat...
