[RitaOK]

Things are becoming a tad eerie. God help us.

[Publius6961]

I just hope these disposable drones go for a lot less than $500,000

[LeoWindhorse]

send one after George Soros

[MrEdd]

Golly, give a slow guided missile a new name and suddenly it is all new again.

[CrazyIvan]

I remember a sci fi book years ago about a weapon similar to this. I think the title was”Butcherbird”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

4.4 pounds so very small and hard to see; electric so very quiet, but can’t have a lot of energy storage given the small mass and probably no loitering time. I’m guessing launch and immediately glide to to a nearby target. Controlled glide all the way to the target — doesn’t help one bit to run away. Range of what? 1/2 mile? This thing sounds real nasty.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Whatever it takes to make sure our guys make it home.

[death2tyrants]

the drone is small enough to fit into a soldier's backpack

Photo of proposed pilot.

[MikeJ]

Photo available here:
http://defense-update.com/20110902_switchblade.html

[denydenydeny]

I’m still waiting for the Dominator program: Basically a B-2 full of dozens of similar drones dumped over a city, allowing for precision takeouts of dozens of targets in a few minutes.

[Rudder]

The Switchblade, however, is touted as a way to avoid killing bystanders.
"Flying quietly at high speed the Switchblade delivers its onboard explosive payload with precision while minimizing collateral damage,"

Featured on the front cover of Hitman International

[ProtectOurFreedom]

DARPA Project "Anubis"

Aerovironment "Switchblade"

[Jeff Head]

Here's a pic of the aircraft launch and target acquisition and attack.

[Talisker]

A miniature "kamikaze" drone designed to quietly hover in the sky before dive-bombing and slamming into a human target will soon be part of the US Army's arsenal, officials say.

This is the beginning of Hunter-Seeker technology. In a few hundred years, it will look like this.

[2ndDivisionVet]

That’ll work well against Tea Party and Oathkeepers leaders.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Video taken at AUVSI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKixW5PHbw. Awesome launch, target acquisition and obliterate sequence.

[Tucker39]

Back in the summer there was a video that came around showing these “SwitchBlades” in operation. With the wings folded back, several of them, plus the launch tube and a video monitor will fit in a backpack. A GI can set up the tube and launch one in a minute, and then monitor in real time what its camera is looking at. The battery capacity is such that the weapon can “loiter” at altitude for quite a while, and can be guided right to the selected target by the GI with the video monitor. In the demo I saw, the SwitchBlade took out a vehicle of some kind. It packs a pretty good punch with high explosives. I’ll see if I can locate the video on another ‘puter tomorrow.

[tlb]

>>> US Army to fly 'kamikaze' drones

Early prototype.

[bunkerhill7]

The Germans had these in WW2- small tv-guided drones with a grenade in the nose

they called them

`VolksflugenfindenslofendumpkofenReichblasten`

[jonatron]

Check out this link:
Here's some of the rather broad categories Homeland Security classifies with domestic threats:
Alternative media- A term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets.
Racist skinheads- Groups or individuals who combine white supremacist ideology with a skinhead ethos in which “white power” music plays a central role. Some are abandoning these stereotypical identifiers.
Tax Resistance movement

Apparently, Patrons of the Main-Stream Media,
Proponents of White Dis-enpowerment,
and the Advocates of Higher Taxes protesting across the nation, (although promoting anarchy and calling for revolution) are just dandy.