Using drones: principles, tactics and results (amended title)

**slapout9** · 05-02-2012

Link to Gadsden,AL Police Chief's story about drones, includes some video to.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ala-...t-owns-drones/

**BushrangerCZ** · 05-02-2012

There is one result I do not like: All recce units got issued mandatory ballistic plate carriers and helmets, and no one does covert dismounted long range recce ops for multiple days any more. And it´s needed there. Drones are amazing, but they can´t win alone in counterinsurgency campaign, while the rest is carrying their armoured bodies in vehicles and get blown up on IEDs daily.

**carl** · 05-02-2012

Originally Posted by BushrangerCZ

There is one result I do not like: All recce units got issued mandatory ballistic plate carriers and helmets, and no one does covert dismounted long range recce ops for multiple days any more. And it´s needed there. Drones are amazing, but they can´t win alone in counterinsurgency campaign, while the rest is carrying their armoured bodies in vehicles and get blown up on IEDs daily.

I find this kind of thing ironic because years ago I read of the Russians going into Grozny and the stories most always had an arch tone of disapproval when noting that they were reluctant to get out of their vehicles.