Jed,
Yes the report was quite well written but with a bit of thought it could
have been much shorter.
I didn't make it clear enough in my earlier post what I meant about a
small lethal drone.
I visualize something small enough to fly through a normal doorway or
window, that is autonomous so that the control signal can't be jammed,
that has good enough pattern recognition to spot humans - and kills
everyone, civilian or soldier. It would have a coded stop switch or
"don't kill" switch that would be too difficult for the defender to
figure out. Or not have a kill switch if the owner is a fanatic and
insane, as some appear to be. This would not be so much of a problem
until there is a battery replacement like LENR.
Consider what would happen if hundreds/thousands of these machines were
loosed on a city by group like ISIS to clear out the "enemy" possibly
with tiny more agile drones acting as scouts for the main body. The
point I was trying to make was that the report didn't seem to consider
this possibility. The US used nuclear bombs that didn't do much to
protect the civilians and worries more about civilians when they are not
fighting like in Syria.
Perhaps Ian Walker, who knows more about the state of the art, would
comment.
AA
On 10/23/2016 10:48 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
a.ashfield <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
In the section on LAWS - lethal autonomous weapons - they miss the
point that an unscrupulous enemy like ISIS could develop or modify
a Western development, to kill any human.
I have heard that it is not difficult to stop a commercially made
flying drone. You interrupt the radio remote controls. The U.S.
military has the ability to do this already. Apparently ISIS is
already using these things.
Small, military grad drones made in Russia and autonomous drones might
be more difficult to stop.
Here is a video of a drone firing a handgun. The drone was made by an
18-year-old guy in Hartford, CT. Sort of like "A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court." A guy from Hartford causing chaos with
futuristic weapons!
http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-gun-fire-drone-investigation-20150721-story.html
- Jed
