kamikaze drone

kamikaze drone (plural kamikaze drones)

1. (military, informal) A drone used as loitering munition; a suicide drone.
   • 2014, Peter Bergen; Daniel Rothenberg, editors, Drone Wars, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 302:

     This aircraft would essentially function as a kamikaze drone, crashing into its target and detonating its explosives upon impact, and did not appear to be much of a step up from the single-use drones Iran had years earlier.

   • 2020, Michael J. Boyle, The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 138:

     One such kamikaze drone is called the Switchblade; it was introduced by AeroVironment in 2012 and sold widely to the US military.