Posted on 02/14/2016 2:56:05 PM PST by C19fan
“A solar-electric helicopter big enough to carry guns and missiles, that can fly for an hour every day if it can land and recharge its batteries.”
Source? Who manufacturers this helicopter? How many kWhs would it take to keep a helicopter of this size in the air for one hour? Who makes the batteries, how many are needed in the helicopter, and how much does each one weigh?
Part of the plot to "Blade Runner" is that the replicants have a life expectancy of 4 years. You really want a level of obsolescence or fragility with these things or else there's no stopping them.
Of course, but a human would be the ones who could pull the plug on any charging device the robot decided to use.
Just not buying the threat of this thing, that’s all. Sure, a movie could be made out of it, but movies tend to be unreal anyway.
Source? DARPA. Boeing.
“you have some misconceptions about EMP. “
No, I don’t. What you posted was partial facts and conjecture. Sorry, not getting into scientific debates with an “Internet genius”.
Source is a program manager who gave me a tour of a facility.
For any watchers who are curious, or want something to put their teeth into, let me add another clue. The program began with a gasoline powered but unmanned Hughes 500 to develop the software. Then they created their own program specific electric helicopter that is much too small to support human pilots, but is large enough to support missiles and guns. It’s small enough to hide in the backyard of an empty house. And it’s smart enough to find its daily hiding/recharging place all by itself. And it knows when to wake up and go hunting. Day after day, until the ordnance is expended.
PS: If it’s too cloudy, it will just wait until it has a full charge, so it might skip a day or two here or there. But when it’s recharged, it will take off again on fully autonomous hunting missions.
Or I should say, it “could” take off etc. The concept and platforms have been fully tested and proven. Putting it into combat use, say, hunting ISIS terrorists in the Islamic State, is simply a political decision at this point. Not technical. Only political.
All the technologies are in production to make a hunter/killer drone for small areas. The autonomous nature of the Reaper is enough for that to be established.
What I posted are portions of the well-documented record of a Soviet test, along with solid analysis of what a single large weapon could do to the US grid. The American Starfish Prime test is also well known and documented.
I'll go ahead and post on the E1 pulse, I ran out of steam last night. It absolutely can knock out the vast majority of microelectronics, among other things.
"EMP may disrupt something but it doesn't destroy it unless it is connected to very long wires that can absorb the pulse over very long distances."
From Wikipedia:
The E1 pulse is the very fast component of nuclear EMP. E1 is a very brief but intense electromagnetic field that induces very high voltages in electrical conductors. E1 causes most of its damage by causing electrical breakdown voltages to be exceeded. E1 can destroy computers and communications equipment and it changes too quickly for ordinary surge protectors to provide effective protection against it, although there are special fast-acting surge protectors that will block the E1 pulse.The oft-quoted value for E1 is around 50,000 V/m. That means a 4-inch iPhone antenna would generate around 5,000 V. Bye-bye iPhone.
Of course, anything plugged into electrical outlets would fare far worse.
This is in the book of Joel as a prophesy about the future. I think it may be describing robot “people”. I think it is an amazing prophesy that in the time of Joel would have been so foreign to them, but now not so much.
Joel:
1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the LORD cometh , for it is nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run .
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap , like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array .
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained : all faces shall gather blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded .
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble : the sun and the moon shall be dark , and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
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