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Gremlin Drone Program — USAF

Lethal gets a new name — Gremlin.

As I've shared before, combat — and terrorism — is getting more weapons with which to kill people and disrupt operations. 

If you are a movie buff, you might have seen Angel has Fallen, which starts early in the movie with the president of the United States and his Secret Service staff being attacked by a swarm of drones. Science fiction? Maybe not so much.

See this new weapons configuration, US Defense Department launches Gremlins drone from a mothership for the first time and to see an animation of the technology see this video, click in at 3:53 for a quick illustration. 

Earlier in 2019 I shared that an FBI team was harassed by multiple small drones operated by a gang. 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.