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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung

AGA 8: Non-Nuclear Verification

AGA 8.2: Talk

Friday, April 3, 2020, 13:00–13:25, H-HS XVII

Preventive Arms Control for Small and Very Small Aircraft and Missiles — •Mathias Pilch and Jürgen Altmann — Technische Universität Dortmund, Experimentelle Physik III, Dortmund, Germany

Small and very small armed uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs) and missiles are actively pursued by militaries worldwide. Despite limited payload, militarily significant damage could be achieved by precision, by hitting sensitive spots, and by attacking in swarms. Principally, UAVs and missiles down to 1 mm size and below could be built in the future. A wide-spread deployment can endanger arms control, destabilise the military situation between adversaries, and provide qualitatively new tools for terrorists. In our project we are preparing lists of small UAVs and missiles currently deployed as well as in research and development, detailing their basic properties; these lists will be made available publicly. They allow statements about the state of technology, scale of research and development efforts and proliferation at present and in the future. In the next phase, the current status and trends will be analysed from a natural-science and technical viewpoint and used to extrapolate developments over a period of 5-10 and 10-20 years. In the final phase options for preventive limitations and their verification will be considered systematically.