Fu-Go balloon bomb
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 will be used against the unvaxxed. Drone strikes are a form of social distancing.
Odds are strong that the first such use will be a ff event
Really cool. Too bad the bad guys will get it as soon as we do.
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.
You have to wonder how far behind us in this technology our enemies are. The battlefield is getting alot more deadly recently.
Coming 3 am phone calls:
1 Day After Olympics end: Iran tests nuclear weapon
2 Days after Olympics:Russia invades Ukraine
3 Days after Olympics: China invades Taiwan
4 Days after Olympics “Hello, 911? The President isn’t breathing!”
On Day 4, 3:05 am: VP Harris —“WHAT? Really? Oh, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!
3:10: “I don’t know, she won’t wake up!”
3:15: “ ah, yes, ah yes it is this ah you see this ah is Speaker Pelosi, and ah, ah , it’s quite a uh un Precedented I mean un Presi ah dented, I mean Bo Jiden , I meant hunt..Hunter uh no no uh uh you’ll see uh something when uh I uh do something. Oh dear, where are my pearls?!
They had drones flying in perfect formation at the Tokyo Olympics. They will definitely be a military problem.
Wasn’t the first rule of robotics supposed to be “Do not harm humans”?
Drones can deploy all kinds of nasties, from incendiaries to covert surveillance devices with robotic features to anti-personnel mines to biological agents to chemical agents to whatever else formerly required a more cumbersome method of delivery.
At this moment, if you’re someone with serious enemies and drones can actually land on your dwelling, your security and privacy are already compromised. If you walk outside you are at risk day or night, but more so at night.
If you’re a target and walk outside, a quiet winged drone could be orbiting with night vision and waiting for you to appear. When it uses facial recognition or is manually directed to target you, it will turn off engines, arm the charge in its nose and dive at your person. In your last instant of life you might hear a whooshing sound.
What is a threat to VIPs now will be a threat to many of us later as the parameters of this kind of force become more commonly known and explored, and the technology gets cheaper and commercialized. This is why I see a future of underground dwellings and toughened vehicles (Cybertruck is interestingly timely...)
And netting. Lots and lots of netting over places where people by necessity have to be outdoors, such as sidewalks. People will shroud their homes and yards in netting.
Vulnerable infrastructure such as refineries will have to be hardened against drone attack, and will probably need layered defenses both active and passive.
Drone defenses of all kinds will become an industry.
Inventions of that and the robot-dog-guns are going to be the undoing of a whole lot of things. So many of the pieces are not far from off-the-shelf, and will get there soon.
Only a matter of time before these things show up in large gatherings here in the US
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Already has. One swarm flew around a nuclear installation, I forget where the second happened - no known operators. Remains a mystery.
LOL. Every guided weapon is a kamikaze drone.