Soldato
Valve have seen the future
Unmanned drones, the future of warfare.
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Valve have seen the future
Man of Honour
Really? Bumped a three year old thread for that?
we're doing hundreds of these missions a year, its fairly obvious and easy to trace when a freaking helfire levels a house
Man of Honour
No more poo through the letterbox just special air delivery.
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We'll be fine as long as we don't try and switch them off.
Except it's not even by the back door!
Soldato
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Human beings doing what human beings do best.
Finding more inventive ways to kill each other. Seriously just quit already, this **** is old. (Obviously drones have a legitimate use though, especially search and rescue etc).
Finding more inventive ways to kill each other. Seriously just quit already, this **** is old. (Obviously drones have a legitimate use though, especially search and rescue etc).
Associate
on radio 1 this morning matt from muse said they will be using drones in there show
and some have already fallen into the crowd
and some have already fallen into the crowd
And the other side isn't human? This is the problem with the world - they seem to forget that war is human against human at the end of the day.
Drones for whatever purpose other than warfare - I'm all for.
For warfare - its disgusting - death without trial is the first thing that springs to mind - very 'democratic' of us.
http://gizmodo.com/5979372/watch-the-worlds-highest-resolution-drone-mounted-camera-in-action
Interesting read. You know what they say about this stuff - once we find out about it it's ancient tech. I can only imagine what drones are capable of now.
Interesting read. You know what they say about this stuff - once we find out about it it's ancient tech. I can only imagine what drones are capable of now.
Soldato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM6E3f2lT14&nohtml5=False
This is a small system that spots and kills mosquitos with a laser whilst they're in flight from across the stage (can do further). Happens quicker than a human being can think. This is from six years ago.
I don't think people have really understood what automated targetting can do, yet. Assassination by drones in warfare (or peace) is a viable weapon.
The use of drones removes one of the key things that prevent a country waging war on another - the sight of body bags being brought home. Imagine a USA that could invade Iraq with one tenth the casualties. What would persuade them not to invade somewhere then?
Anyone who thinks such systems would not be deployed by a government against its own population needs to open a history book. They can and will. They have another great advantage over human beings - they can be deployed against anyone without conscience or risk of mutiny. If the US army is deployed against the US population, or the UK army against the British, they would have severe morale and desertion issues in those forces. But finding enough people to control drones is easy.
The human race is currently creating its own killer robots. This is fact.
This is a small system that spots and kills mosquitos with a laser whilst they're in flight from across the stage (can do further). Happens quicker than a human being can think. This is from six years ago.
I don't think people have really understood what automated targetting can do, yet. Assassination by drones in warfare (or peace) is a viable weapon.
The use of drones removes one of the key things that prevent a country waging war on another - the sight of body bags being brought home. Imagine a USA that could invade Iraq with one tenth the casualties. What would persuade them not to invade somewhere then?
Anyone who thinks such systems would not be deployed by a government against its own population needs to open a history book. They can and will. They have another great advantage over human beings - they can be deployed against anyone without conscience or risk of mutiny. If the US army is deployed against the US population, or the UK army against the British, they would have severe morale and desertion issues in those forces. But finding enough people to control drones is easy.
The human race is currently creating its own killer robots. This is fact.
I am all for unmanned vehicles taking on roles within the armed forces and they do, mine clearance, troop support, surveillance, bomb disposal to name a few. But once we get to the point of EDI from steal (for example) without the AI having morals the world would have a big problem.
Morality in AI takes us to a whole new conversation about whether an AI could be classified as living, would it fall under human rights laws?
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Is it any wonder that both civil and military are very keen on research to both detect and disable small drones? Some of the military ones are quite small and civil enforcement has to deal with the problem of people who like to fly them in the approach/departure lanes of major airports.
Even a small mainly plastic toy can be detected on radar if you do it right. Then you can jam, shoot or hack them.
Even a small mainly plastic toy can be detected on radar if you do it right. Then you can jam, shoot or hack them.
Caporegime
It's not just drone aircraft that are being developed. DARPA are currently testing a 130ft anti-sub drone ship. I believe the US Navy has done some experiments with smaller swarm boats as well. It's really disappointing for me that the UK hasn't really embraced the drone era as well as we might, anyone remember that idea to convert our fleet of Tornados to UAVs? For an island nation I would have thought we'd want to be a leader in drone ship innovation.
What is the difference between a drone dropping a missile and a manned aircraft? The target is still just as dead.