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What part of an AC130 is automated?

• sitkack 13y ago
  The smaller more asymmetric military operations are often used to test prototype weapons. My response about automated genocide is that it most likely already happened. And I can't think of a better testbed than an AC130 gunship for an automatic aiming system, the operators only see thermal blobs anyway. Not like this, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/ This would be trivial to automate https://archive.org/details/AC-130_Gunship_Ops_in_Afghanistan_HighResolution https://archive.org/details/AC-130_Gunship_Ops_in_Afghanista...
  • dm2 13y ago
    Wow, I hadn't heard of that story, truly scary stuff. This video was linked to in that article, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/video-robo-weap/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/video-robo-weap/ hopefully every soldier, programmer, and engineer working on these systems has to watch similar videos so that they know the importance of getting this stuff right.