REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

www.mod.gov.rs

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Material Resources Sector

Defensive Technologies Department

Military Technical Institute

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The Present Role of Anti-Drone Technologies in Modern Warfare and Projected Developments

SERKAN SERT

The Republic of Turkey National Defence University, ISTANBUL, ssert@msu.edu.tr

TOLGA ÖZ

The Republic of tuRkey National Defence University, ISTANBUL, toz@msu.edu.tr

Abstract: As many scholars pointed out “Autonomous drones are being called the biggest thing in military technology since the nuclear bomb”. The idea behind MAD doctrine is that if both sides were to fight a full-scale war with nuclear weapons, there would be no winners and both would be mutually annihilated. This impasse has relatively kept the world from erupting into another all-encompassing war. In the matter of drones, continuing proliferation of them with their technological components that pioneered in 1917 with the first pilotless winged aircraft in history, ramped up by the first commercial drone permits by the FAA in the US recognizing the potential of non-military, non-consumer drone applications in 2006. Concordantly academic literature rather has been filled with the hypothesis of using drones; particularly armed ones can spark long term security and stability. But the snowballing use of contemporary drones is obviously inclined to make the world a more conflicting place both in civilian and military domains. This has been progressing as a worldwide pain point that there’s not been reached any forcible remedy like MAD doctrine in nuclear confrontation. Within this problematic margin, our study firstly provides awareness how growing number of increasingly capable drones in our skies poses obvious challenges. And as second, it enables the academics to familiarize recent types of counter drone technologies and instruments, and lastly outlines trajectory of counter-technology in times to come

Keywords: Drone, Anti/Counter UAS/Drone, Detection & Neutralization of Drones, Defense Management.