Interesting - I have at least a Battalion’s worth of active UAVs operating right here, as well as at least a half dozen UAVs sitting in the museum.
A major UAV manufacturer has facilities right up the road from my office.
And the line about ‘some of which have been designed to kill terrorists’ refers to the fact that Predators carry Hellfires. Doesn’t mean that they do, in the U.S., just that they can.
Time for tin-foil hats, folks?
That doesn't bother me as much. I figure the real threat is surveillance.
I've seen demos of units smaller than a laptop that can shoot HD quality footage from two different cameras and can fly in and out of an ordinary window.
And that is available to you and me for just a couple large all legal like.
If you and I can lay our hands on such what the hell is the authorities using? How small are they can they overfly your property or even fly into your buildings and such?
You can call me a tinfoilhatter but it don't take much imagination to see how such technology could be abused in a hurry!
>And the line about ‘some of which have been designed to kill terrorists’ refers to the fact that Predators carry Hellfires. Doesn’t mean that they do, in the U.S., just that they can.
Considering that, in addition to the President’s assertion that he can order the assassination/killing/murder of a US citizen merely SUSPECTED of terrorism (and not on the battlefield), AND the National Defense Authorization Act, which [IIRC] makes the continental US a war-zone and I think that there is reason for concern.