How much did your drone cost Mr Secy of Defense? |
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| By: Synoia Sunday December 23, 2012 11:31 pm | |
My kids could do this. Someone else’s have.
Next step. Lego Hellfire’s. Even the NRA would support those. Scavenge the explosive from unused bullets, and find a fuse (probably a Mexican Firework), and voila, drones everywhere.
Is this protected under the 2nd amendment, Mr ThePeter? (The “The” is feminine French, are you gay?), Rep Gomert?
Maybe the squad of, armed, deputized 6 and 8 year olds could swarm the NRA HQ with these. Or Congress.
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Thanks, Synoia. I’ve been trying to make this point, which you have made far more eloquently than I ever could have. Great work!
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Or put little cameras on them and fly them into corporate boardrooms.
And a microphone.
Actually, I think the idea above about swarming Congress with them is a GREAT idea.
Could you imagine 100,000 of those buzzing around the Capital??? Preferably with a speaker and a repeating message of “DO NOT CUT SOCIAL SECURITY”.
This technology has been around since there were model airplanes and radio control. What makes drone technology today is the GPS guidance and the network-based control.
Not quite to home-brew Hellfire equipped drones yet, but the coming era of 3-D printing makes that only a matter of time. At which point, the major issue will be sufficient explosives, which are tightly regulated after 9/11. But, DIY drone enthusiasts have successfully tested a drone armed with a paint-ball pistol, which means equipping them with firearms is not that difficult. In the paint-ball model, controlling the aim apparently is not a huge technical challenge.
This is a destabilizing weapons system because it will be well within the price range of other countries, political movements, and corporations.
Have to agree with the kids in the video – AWESOME!
Of course, the first law of military planning and acquisition in the US is related to an item’s ability to have secret kickbacks and silent payouts (What would be considered fraud in any other line of work.)
This is a nation that likes to have 1.2 million dollar robots to scramble up the hills of Afghanistan, while the natives use burros. We also spent some $ 100,000 trying to invent a pen that would operate in zero gravity. None of our scientists succeeded at that point in time. The Russians,lacking the budget that we had, gave their astronauts pencils!
Not so much. The precursors are readily available.