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Robotics advancements in warfare - 4/27/2009 1:00:09 PM   
Vendaval


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Status: offline 		An update on the use of robotic technology in warfare.  As with other advances in technology, there is are a number of ethical questions about if, when, where and how it should be used.  April 22nd, 2009 Killer robots and a revolution in warfare

By: Bernd Debusmann

"Singer just published Wired For War - the Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, a book that traces the rise of the machines and predicts that in future wars they will not only play greater roles in executing missions but also in planning them.

Numbers reflect the explosive growth of robotic systems. The U.S. forces that stormed into Iraq in 2003 had no robots on the ground. There were none in Afghanistan either. Now those two wars are fought with the help of an estimated 12,000 ground-based robots and 7,000 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the technical term for drone, or robotic aircraft.

Ground-based robots in Iraq have saved hundreds of lives in Iraq, defusing improvised explosive devices, which account for more than 40 percent of U.S. casualties. The first armed robot was deployed in Iraq in 2007 and it is as lethal as its acronym is long: Special Weapons Observation Remote Reconnaissance Direct Action System (SWORDS). Its mounted M249 machinegun can hit a target more than 3,000 feet away with pin-point precision.

From the air, the best-known UAV, the Predator, has killed dozens of insurgent leaders - as well as scores of civilians whose death has prompted protests both from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Predators are flown by operators sitting in front of television monitors in cubicles at Creech  Air Force Base in Nevada, 8,000 miles from Afghanistan and Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan. The cubicle pilots in Nevada run no physical risks whatever, a novelty for men engaged in war."

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/04/22/killer-robots-and-a-revolution-in-warfare/

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RE: Robotics advancements in warfare - 4/27/2009 1:04:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		The globalists are going to have a field day with this.  No country will be immune to its tyranny.  There will be no need for negotiation, no compromises.  Still, the conundrum here will be that someone's going to argue that we don't need to deploy as many troops, and Defense Contractors.com just can't have someone saying something like that!


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RE: Robotics advancements in warfare - 4/28/2009 6:51:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Globalists ? Conspiracy theorists already are having annual meetings about it LOL.

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RE: Robotics advancements in warfare - 4/28/2009 12:21:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Term, like you would know anything about that conspiracy stuff. 

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RE: Robotics advancements in warfare - 4/28/2009 1:46:43 PM   
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Seriously, cool from *our* side...not so from the *other* side.

But, for Conspiracies, go to:   http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/index.cfm 


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RE: Robotics advancements in warfare - 4/28/2009 8:08:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't know if this makes any sense.  The burden of war is increasingly being the financial cost of the war, not the lives lost.  So why does jacking up the costs make us more able to fight?

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RE: Robotics advancements in warfare - 4/29/2009 8:40:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		Probably kills per dollar. Just think, no food, no docs no nuthing, just batteries and ammo. They don't have to eat or sleep, and they don't become a problem when they get exposed to toxins. They also don't get PTSD.

Don't get me wrong though, I am not saying this is a good thing.

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RE: Robotics advancements in warfare - 4/29/2009 10:23:12 AM   
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RE: Robotics advancements in warfare - 4/29/2009 7:42:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		       I'm in, Ven.   All the way in.  The objective in war is to win, and you have to do that with what you have.  What the United States has is a hell of a lot of fat, spoiled, self-absorbed wimps who sit and play video games all day long.  Turning them into lean, mean, killing machines who sleep on rocks and like it, is not a productive use of our resouces.  Hell, many of them couldn't even pass the entrance physical.  Training them to sit in cubicles, and operate technology we already have/can have mighty quick, just makes a lot more sense.

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