The use of force employed by the militarily very advanced countries in the last couple of decades has been dominated by ‘remote warfare’. That, simply put, is a strategy of countering threats at a distance, without the need to deploy large military forces. Although remote warfare consists of entirely different practices. The academic research and the public in general pay higher attention on drone warfare as a most visible form of this ‘new’ interventionism. In this respect, research has developed critical insights into the varied effects of drone warfare in ethical, legal, political, but also social and economic contexts.
Unlike remote-controlled platforms for instance drones, this development refers to weapons systems that are AI-driven in their critical functions. The AI weapons process data from on-board sensors and algorithms to ‘pick’, in other words, search for or detect, identify, track, and select. Then attack, in other words, use force against, neutralize, damage, or destroy targets. All without human intervention.
Importance of Including AI In Weapons System
AI-driven components in weapons systems can adopt varied different forms but clearly depart from what may be conventionally distinguished as ‘killer robots’. The argument made is that including AI in weapons systems is important. Not because we seek to emphasize the looming emergence of fully autonomous machines making life and death decisions without any human intervention. But because human control is progressively being left vulnerable in human-machine interactions.
AI Weapons At Defense Platform
The advanced and highly sophisticated weapons systems as a defense platform feasibly exacerbates trends of technologically facilitated forms of remote warfare. Which have been prevalent for some decades. The important concern is how latest technological innovations in warfare impact human-machine interactions. In turn compromises human control. The objective of this discussion is to examine the significance of AWS (autonomous weapon systems) in the context of remote warfare. Through investigating their specific characteristics, especially with respect to the essential characteristic of distance. Secondly, their ramifications for ‘meaningful human control’ (MHC). A concept that has gradually turned important in the political debate on autonomous weapon systems.
AWS Are Unlike Nuclear Warheads
Autonomous systems are different in a more basic sense from nuclear warheads. Where nuclear warheads are a stand-alone weaponry. AI is a facilitating technology that is deployed in several types of weapons and support systems. A nuclear missile too may be outfitted with an AI system that would provide it the ability to identify and destroy a specific target.
AI Will Change Warfighting For Soldiers
As per the experts AI Weapons could drastically change warfighting for soldiers. Humans will be instructed to quickly digest and capitalize on large amounts of data while controlling, or defending against, other kinds of AWSs like drone swarms. They’ll be digesting data from sensors mounted on weapons, satellites, and soldiers’ bodies. The side with better data and fastest means of processing will have an edge. The fear of yielding that advantage can encourage a country to accelerate its development of autonomous systems. Probably without addressing reliability questions.
The Final Word
Increasing autonomy is closely related to the escalation of unmanned defense platforms. Several countries are testing, building, and deploying a wide range of unmanned aircraft, ships, submarines, and tanks. The U.S. National Security Commission on AI recently deduced that well designed, tested, and used AI-enabled and autonomous weapon systems, will lead to a substantial military and even humanitarian benefit. However simple autonomy is not that tough. Besides, autonomous weapons have been a fundamental part of warfare for centuries. Autonomy means that machines can operate without human control. The weapon just requires a sensor, a medium to process sensor information, and activate the payload.
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Over the last decade, the defense industry has been witnessing a massive transformation owing to the increasing development of technologies such as directed energy weapons (DEWs), artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning (ML).
The increased need for efficiency, precision, speed, and low-cost engagement have shifted the focus of enterprises from conventional defense system to a modernized directed energy weapon systems such as laser, microwave, and neutral particle beam.
The market of directed energy weapon systems is expected to evolve significantly in developed regions such as North America and Europe and is gaining popularity in geographies such as the Asia-Pacific and Middle East and Africa (MEA).
Key advantages of directed energy weapon systems are their high speed, precision, flexibility, and low operation cost.The need for enhanced border security due to increasing land disputes, migration, and smuggling, has compelled several countries to further strengthen their security.
This has led to the increase demand in the development of advanced directed energy weapon systems to provide enhanced situational awareness to the soldiers so as to have a competitive edge over the opponents.
With recent developments in the field of optics, laser and microwave technology, directed energy weapon systems are becoming available at a reliable cost.The major driving force behind the growth of the directed energy weapon systems market is largely attributed to the increase in the number of defense programs related to directed energy weapon systems and associated investments.
