近期对美国基地的威胁表明，美军在应对无人机战争方面准备严重不足。
Recent threats on U.S. bases show just how unprepared the military is for drone warfare.
美国轰炸机从英国一处关键空军基地突然撤离，凸显了全球最强大的军事力量及其北约盟友所面临的极端脆弱性——廉价无人机和现成技术正在改变战争形态。
The abrupt evacuation of American bombers from a key U.K. airbase underscores the extreme vulnerability facing the world’s most powerful fighting force and its NATO allies — as cheap drones and off-the-shelf tech transform warfare.
唐纳德·特朗普总统坚持认为，由于美国和以色列火力长达八个月的打击，伊朗军队已“被彻底摧毁”。但德黑兰继续利用低成本沙赫德无人机进行反击，这些无人机不仅阻止了美国海军返回中东的美国友好港口，还严重摧毁了伊朗附近的一处美国空军基地。关于伊朗无人机的警告甚至导致本周所有美国轰炸机从英国费尔福德空军基地撤离，并促使特朗普在7月离开土耳其安卡拉北约峰会时匆忙躲进一辆餐饮车。
President Donald Trump has insisted Iran’s military is “completely destroyed” due to eight months of attacks from American and Israeli firepower. But Tehran continues to strike back with low-cost Shahed drones that have kept the Navy from returning to U.S.-friendly ports in the Middle East and severely damaged an American airbase near Iran. Warnings about Iranian drones even led to the evacuation of all U.S. bombers from Britain’s Fairford air base this week and sent Trump scurrying into a catering cart in July as he left a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.
这些行动凸显了这些新威胁的普遍性——以及美国和欧洲官员在应对新型战争时准备多么不足。
The actions underscore the pervasiveness of these new threats — and just how unprepared U.S. and European officials are to tackle a new kind of warfare.
一位欧洲高级防务官员表示：“让我担忧的是‘无人机恐怖主义’日益增长的可能性，以及不同半有组织团体和卑鄙个人利用廉价甚至家用手段针对我们基础设施采取行动的能力。”
“What worries me is a growing possibility of ‘drone terrorism’ and ability of different semiorganized groups and vile individuals to act against our infrastructure by cheap, even household made, means,” said a senior European defense official.