Index for Military Moratorium of AWECS
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Military Moratorium
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| Con: "Take no action to establish an international moratorium on military use of AWECS." |
Pro: "Take action to establish an international moratorium on military use of AWECS" |
| AWECS seem to have low survivability. Easy take-out. | Kytoon multiply branched and set into oscillating motion with energy mining onboard could be multiplied to such high numbers so as to drain the energies of the enemy. |
| No cause for concern. | Surveillance systems gradually adopt lethality. |
| Tethered aircraft already hold (and always have) the endurance record for heavier than air aircraft. The new technology allows them to persist even more in flight. | |
| They are generally the most robust of any aircraft type. Projectiles will tend to pass right through them without effect. They are also potentially so cheap as to be "disposable." | |
| Persistent station-keeping by a flying weapons platform is slow flying, but is militarily useful. Military helicopters are slow fliers without endurance | |
| They can loiter at altitudes beyond easy reach by ground fire & be very hard for radar, visual, or heat-seeking sensors to spot. | |