U.S DRONES TO JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST NORTH KOREA

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U.S DRONES TO JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST NORTH KOREA
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• Countries like North Korea and Iran continue to
  pose a threat to global stability forcing
  countries like the U.S. to develop new and
  superior forms of defense. While drones have had
  their military uses for several decades now, they
  are continuing to be developed and improved to
  help counteract threats from overseas enemies.
  The U.S. Missile Defence Agency (MDA) have
  recently stated that the threat from North Korea
  has escalated and they have shown to be advancing
  and accelerating their capability to launch
  attacks on U.S. soil, such as has been
  demonstrated in their development of long-range
  nuclear-armed missiles.

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• Part of President Trumps national security
  budget is being set aside for the development and
  construction of remote controlled robots with the
  capacity to destroy enemy rockets, and along with
  unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, they are
  said to have the potential to change the way that
  missile defence functions.
• The Low Power Demonstrator (LPD)
• The LPD program has been assigned the task of
  developing and producing a UAV that can be fitted
  with a 150kilowatt laser cannon, to try and
  combat the threat. One such weapon has already
  been fitted to a warship and proved to have
  sufficient power to take down drones operated
  from enemy territory.

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• This high powered LPD may sound and look like
  something out of science fiction, but it has a
  very real purpose and could be used to target
  long range ballistic missiles while theyre still
  on the enemy launch pad or destroy them just
  after they have been launched.
• Those responsible for creating and constructing
  the weapon plan to mount it on the U.S.s newly
  designed Avenger drones, which are bigger and
  stealthier than their predecessors, the Predator
  Drone, which were used in both the conflicts in
  Afghanistan and Iraq.

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• What problems might the LPD face?
• Issues such as the weight of the laser weaponry
  and the power that they need to function
  properly, need to be tackled before such a weapon
  would be ready for use in live combat. There is
  also the issue of drones being operational under
  such conditions as dust and water vapour as both
  can distort the laser beam.
• We can choose to take comfort in the fact that
  drones are being developed to help combat the
  threat from countries such as North Korea, or we
  can fret about their capabilities getting into
  the wrong hands and being turned against us.
  Warfare isnt an easy topic and most of us would
  prefer not to have to discuss it all, but since
  the threat is there, its important we dont turn
  a blind eye.

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