Posted on 05/17/2014 3:46:03 PM PDT by lbryce
In 13 short years, killer drones have gone from being exotic military technology featured primarily in the pages of specialized aviation magazines to a phenomenon of popular culture, splashed across daily newspapers and fictionalized in film and television, including the new season of “24.”
What has not changed all that much — at least superficially — is the basic aircraft that most people associate with drone warfare: the armed Predator.
The Predator, with its distinctive bubble near the nose and sensor ball underneath, is the iconic image of drone warfare, an aircraft that grew out of 1980s work supported by the Pentagon’s future-thinking Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Originally developed to perform surveillance, the CIA added Hellfire missiles and began using the Predator to hunt down members of the Taliban and al Qaeda after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Though the CIA and Air Force now fly an updated version of the Predator — named Reaper — the drone is still relatively easy to detect, and easy to shoot down, at least for a country with a modern military.
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So, we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars on R & D to increase our ability to overwhelm the enemy on the order of magnitude of exponential killing capacity. Why are our enemies keeping pace with the capability in the technology we have to otherwise effectively render them militarily obsolete? Why, how is it that we are not destroying them in the same ratio as that of the army of the future battling the Huns? (Okay, not quite but you get my point.)
I'd say the rules of engagement. We are no longer trying to win wars, we are attacking people to make them like us.
Because they idea isn’t to win a war, it’s to get the money into the defense department/lobbyist pipeline and wallets.
Make no mistake, soon these will be used against US.
By the authorities. And by each other once the technology filters down to civilians. The era of the gun is shortlived now. Soon the 2nd amendment will be irrelevant, even for the purposes of self defense.
“Soon the 2nd amendment will be irrelevant, even for the purposes of self defense.”
You can buy an autonomous drone yourself for lest than the cost of an AR15.
I bet I cannot legally own one.
Bet we can get the plans online.
The cat is out of the bag.
Yup.
And so can the pervert up the street if he wants to look at your 10yr old daughter swimming in the pool in your fenced backyard.
And look in her 2nd floor window just in case she’s negligently left the curtains incompletely closed.
And the gangbangers planning a home invasion can check out your surroundings prior to their fun and games so there aren’t any surprise dogs or nosy neighbors.
Brave new world.
Because they are saving the good stuff to be used on the homeland terrorists
Right. If drones become annoying look for otherwise harmless microwave “guns” that will fry their itty, bitty brains to become available.
Eventually it will come down to the hunter/killer
drones used in the movie Dune. small as a bird, small
as a spider. It’s not a happy thought.
I’d bet you’re spot on.
Now imagine a million-drone march on DC....
But according to the article, they'll soon be getting the low-tech drone.
Try building the hellfire missiles to arm it.
I know the military is working on tiny drones. As small as flies and they can either be used for reconnaissance or assassination through poison.
Wait until they have face recognition on drones, matched with voter ID, and another Obama is in charge.
Someday, instead of a tax audit, they’ll just send out a drone with your name on it.
They already have the GPS coordinates of your front door, thanks to the 2010 census.
I’m sure they had entirely benign reasons for getting that information. Entirely benign...
Couldn’t Google Maps could give that info long before the census even thought about it?
Not exactly down to the foot from what I’ve been told.
It’s just interesting that they had to be oh so careful with the census so as not to scare the illegals into not being reported. BUT they take down GPS coordinates. Because THAT’s not threatening or anything.
Yeah.
“You can buy an autonomous drone yourself for lest than the cost of an AR15.”
I say we make our own freeper drone air force:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
That guy cracks me up! Lol!
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