Posted on 12/06/2021 3:40:36 PM PST by devane617
The killer drone whooshed out of its launch tube, spreading its carbon wings and shooting into the sky.
Flying too fast for the naked eye to track, the battery-powered robot circled the Utah desert, hunting for the target it had been programmed to strike. Moments later, the drone sailed through the driver’s side window of an empty pick-up truck and exploded in a fireball.
“Good hit,” exclaimed an operator from AeroVironment, the company that produces the drone and sells it to the U.S. military.
NBC News traveled to a military testing center for exclusive access to the first-ever public demonstration of the Switchblade 300, a small, low-cost “kamikaze” drone made by AeroVironment that sources say has been used quietly for years by the U.S. military in targeted killing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
The demonstration told a story of promise and peril.
Worried about whom having them?
It’s inevitable and the US military has been preparing for a long time. The future of warfare will look much different and it will require in the short-term great wealth.
Japan will be a player as well.
We can’t stop it and the military said that two decades ago. The only thing we can do is prepare and try to stay a step ahead.
Your guesses are as good as mine if that will be the case.
Skype is aware
How many fps is that?
Rather old news. There was video, might still be up, on LiveLeak where ISIS was flying them in formation. Taught themselves how to drop 40mm grenades(from an M203 type platform) into the open hatch on Iraqi tanks.
Get close to an open air stadium, fly a few over the top and that’s all she wrote. Only way to defeat that is to have a frequency jammer, thus making every cell phone in the stadium unusable.
Only a matter of time. Oh wait, didn’t we just and continue to fly in, thousands of folks who would love to do this. It appears that their population at Ft Dix has grown so much that it’s bigger than half the towns in NJ. Good times ahead folks. Good times.
They could be used to start fires. Untraceable. Fire season is bad enough.
“Worried about whom having them?”
Any bad guy/terrorist/gang common street thug. The possibilities are endless for how these things can be used to harm people or carry out all manner of crime. Imagine a drone with a load of explosives over a football game, etc. That technology is already available but so far no one has put it to use in a domestic setting here in the US.
They will be used against the unvaxxed. Drone strikes are a form of social distancing.
Stupid autocorrect....
SKYNET
Odds are strong that the first such use will be a ff event
“SKYNET”
So my T&A drop fly down the beach will be lasered? Hmm.
Really cool. Too bad the bad guys will get it as soon as we do.
Bkmk
> Any bad guy/terrorist/gang common street thug
I think you’re worrying about the wrong groups here.
Because the real group of concern refers to you with those terms.
100% correct.
Government.
any government
I think it was some 19th century philosopher who hypothesized that more or less every new technology is eventually turned into a weapon of war.
Any government. Including our own.
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