The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet

[W.G.Ewald]

Like a Swarm of Lethal Bugs: The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

An Air Force simulation says researchers are at work on killer robots so tiny that a group of them could blend into a cityscape.

Science writer John Horgan's feature on the many ways drones will be used in coming years is interesting throughout, and terrifying in the passage where he describes an effort to build micro-drones that are, as the U.S. Air Force describes them, "Unobtrusive, pervasive, and lethal."

Air Force officials declined a request to observe flight tests at a "micro-aviary" they've built, he reported, but they did let him see a video dramatization "starring micro-UAVs that resemble winged, multi-legged bugs. The drones swarm through alleys, crawl across windowsills, and perch on power lines. One of them sneaks up on a scowling man holding a gun and shoots him in the head."

 

[Dovah]

The implications are seriously scary. Can any body think of a counter mechanism?

 

[p2prada]

The implications are seriously scary. Can any body think of a counter mechanism?

A sneeze should kill it or even a fart.

 

[Dovah]

A sneeze should kill it or even a fart.

Not a swarm

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The implications are seriously scary. Can any body think of a counter mechanism?

 

[Bhadra]

The Micro UAVs could also be self exploding. Imagine a MUAV entering a cave in Tora Bora and Killing Osama Bin Laden...

Or an Indian MUAV entering the house of Hafiz Said and bust him... Besides the swarm can attack an objective enter the loop holes of a bunker and bang bang....

Swarm over the LoC and inform the SF of the entry of Paki terrorist ....

It could get stuck on the wall of the confrence room and provide live coverage of the confrence....

The Private detectives could make a killing with this. Also tap Jaitley's mobile..

 

[Ray]

If one could get his hands on the research in nanotechnology, one would be most aghast!

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The Micro UAVs could also be self exploding. Imagine a MUAV entering a cave in Tora Bora and Killing Osama Bin Laden...

Or an Indian MUAV entering the house of Hafiz Said and bust him... Besides the swarm can attack an objective enter the loop holes of a bunker and bang bang....

Swarm over the LoC and inform the SF of the entry of Paki terrorist ....

It could get stuck on the wall of the confrence room and provide live coverage of the confrence....

The Private detectives could make a killing with this. Also tap Jaitley's mobile..

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