Soon, wars may be fought with autonomous drones rather than soldiers, as it’s reported that a KARGU-2 autonomous tactical drone attacked humans in Libya without any intervention. More specifically, this quadcopter autonomously attacked a human during a fight between Libyan government forces and a military faction led by the Libyan National Army’s Khalifa Haftar.
The KARGU-2 is basically a rotary wing attack drone loitering munition system made by Turkey-based company STM. It’s designed for asymmetric warfare as well as anti-terrorist operations and can be operated manually or autonomously. This drone can be used against static or moving targets thanks to its indigenous, real-time processing abilities and its machine learning algorithms.
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Logistics convoys and retreating HAF were subsequently hunted down and remotely engaged by the unmanned combat aerial vehicles or the lethal autonomous weapons systems such as the STM Kargu-2 and other loitering munitions. The lethal autonomous weapons systems were programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition: in effect, a true ‘fire, forget and find’ capability,” according to the report.
