Posted on 03/30/2016 8:47:57 PM PDT by Mariner
The Pentagon’s No. 2 civilian official said Wednesday that the Defense Department is concerned that adversary nations could empower advanced weapons systems to act on their own, noting that while the United States will not give them the authority to kill autonomously, other countries might.
Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work said the Pentagon hasn’t “fully figured out” the issue of autonomous machines, but continues to examine it. The U.S. military has built a force that relies heavily on the decision-making skills of its troops, but “authoritarian regimes” may find weapons that can act independently more attractive because doing so would consolidate the ability to take action among a handful of leaders, he said.
“We will not delegate lethal authority to a machine to make a decision,” Work said. “The only time we will… delegate a machine authority is in things that go faster than human reaction time, like cyber or electronic warfare.”
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How would such system be essentially different from a cruise missile fired from 1,500 miles away...or an ICBM or SLBM?
Islam seems to be ahead of the game.
Without the need to accommodate humans, the units need no armor and can store FAR more fuel for greater range.
And they're expendable.
The only questions being: How many can you make, and how good are they?
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Did you even read the article and observe who their sources were?
So we won't do it, except when we do...
Been part of the Aegis weapons system for a couple of decades. They have an "auto special" engagement mode that basically turns the computer loose to engage any threat that meets certain criteria - without waiting for us slow humans to ok it. We basically ok'd it with the engagement criteria.
I would guess CIWS probably has some similar engagement mode. Probably the various missile defense systems too.
Correct.
In this era, 500ms matters.
A lot.
There are other advantages.
How many TOW missiles (or modern equivalent) can a 4 ton tracked chassis carry when it's made of 1 inch aluminum, and how much fuel would it take to move it 300 miles?
What of a swarm of "suicide cruise missiles" headed toward an enemy battle group at sea from 1,500nm away? Couldn't you put about 1,000 of those on a current Aircraft Carrier?
Think of this: Suicide fighter drones deployed from existing airframes from 1,000 miles away to take out enemy aircraft. All they have to do is make contact at 500mph. An existing Strike Eagle could probably carry a couple of dozen of those.
A B-52 could carry at least 100.
Iranian suicide fighter drone.
3/26/16: The day Tay became self aware...
They're gonna do it so maybe we should do it too and then...
Skynet
> and how good are they?
Could they be captured by the enemy and used against us?
Here are 3 of them in a pre-production test.
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