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Air and Space Power Conference 2024 Transcript: Panel Session Building Ready and Resilient People to Enable Air and Space Operations
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Air and Space Power Conference 2024 Transcript: Middle Power Deterrence by Mr Hugh Jeffrey
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Seven Perennial Challenges to Air Forces
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The Weaponisation of Toys and Implications for the Air Force
The 'poor man's air force' is a term for employing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hobbyist drones or uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) to strategic level military effect, and that effect cannot be understated (Waters, 2018; Nadeau, 2022; Shift, 2023). The ability for terror organisations to coordinate multiple layers of effects, including using COTS drones, to destroy Command and Control (C2) nodes in Israel causes alarm. Couple this with the use of COTS drones for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, strike and battle-damage assessment missions, and the threat posed by what are essentially toys is alarmingly real.