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Some ability to loiter and choose targets via algorithm. Mines can't move, and guided missiles are spatially and temporally bounded in what they can target. Th

Some ability to loiter and choose targets via algorithm. Mines can't move, and guided missiles are spatially and temporally bounded in what they can target. There have already been cases of "autonomous" targeting, such as in 1982 when Exocet missiles fired by Argentine aircraft at a British warship selected a cargo ship instead (possibly due to countermeasures used by the warship). In this case, the weapon hit a target not intended by the firing unit. Of course, unguided weapons do this all the time...

catalogia 7y ago
> Mines, [...] and guided missiles The combination of the two is interesting. The Mark 60 CAPTOR is a naval mine that launches an acoustically guided Mark 46 torpedo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_60_CAPTOR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_60_CAPTOR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_46_torpedo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_46_torpedo