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So from reading the article's first couple of paragraphs my obvious question was how do you dispose of the equipment to not allow it to fall into enemy hands? A
by arenaninja 5y ago
So from reading the article's first couple of paragraphs my obvious question was how do you dispose of the equipment to not allow it to fall into enemy hands? And of course they didn't:
> While the pickup truck exploded after the assassination, it failed to destroy the smart rifle system beyond recognition. This allowed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to piece together what occurred
Using remote AI-assisted seems a logical conclusion. Heck I imagine they hire somebody fresh out of high school who enjoys playing CoD to pull the trigger. It's lower casualty than drones but higher risk if you can't dispose of your tech appropriately
- ren_engineer 5y agothe terrifying thing will be when this type of system gets deployed at scale with drone swarms. The dream of any authoritarian government to use against citizens to keep them in line
- tobmlt 5y agoThis thread makes me wonder how many knife-missiles the USA has in stock. (I am using the opportunity to reference the fact that the USA indeed has a “knife missile” and it is similar in principle if not in capability to the knife missile if the “Culture” series by Ian M. Banks.)
- f0e4c2f7 5y agoBetween that and Musk's coming neural lace I'm ready to sign up for Contact baby!
- tobmlt 5y agoGive me a neural lace with which I can stop a knife missile, or contact which stops the figurative knife missile forever, and so am I.
- tomjen3 5y agoDo you have any additional details about this knife missile?
- ourguile 5y agoI'm assuming this (the AGM-114R9X) is what the user was referring to: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2021/08/26/the-telltale-traces-of-the-us-militarys-new-bladed-missile-r9x/ https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2021/08/26/the-...
- tobmlt 5y agoYes thanks. My bad for not putting up a link.
- Retric 5y agoOn one hand guns on drones are less destructive than bombs and missiles we are already using. So his wife in the car survived where a US drone strike would have killed them both. On the other more surgical strikes may promote use.
- jeffreyrogers 5y agoI believe civilian drone casualties are due largely to mistaken target identification. E.g. the recent incident in Afghanistan was exactly of this type. There are also stories of A-10 pilots shooting civilians by mistake Guns only help if you've got the right person to start with.
- pfraze 5y agoThis is almost exactly the plot of Captain America: Winter Soldier, for what it’s worth, except they use massive floating weapons platforms instead of drones