Use of UAVs will ‘almost certainly’ increase, says strategic studies professor

"The use of unmanned devices in the air, at sea and on land is almost certainly going to increase," Andrew Novo, professor of strategic studies at the National Defense University, Washington, DC tells Kathimerini in an interview. On the sidelines of the lecture "We Have Good Allies: Allies and decisions for war and peace in Thucydides," organized by the Institute of International Relations (IDIS) in Athens, Professor Novo points out to Kathimerini that the human factor is unable to assimilate technological developments. "Pilots are already at their physical limits flying in the current generation of combat aircraft," Dr Novo stresses, adding that "as technology continues to advance, unmanned combat aircraft will be necessary because human pilots will not be physically capable of flying them."

Extending the discussion to the Ukrainian battlefields, Novo, a fellow at Johns...