Killer Drones

[Bullwinkle]

it will be interesting to see what happens when the control codes get hacked by the bad guys

[Guest]

Well if you consider Iran the bad guys they already hacked one of our drones.

“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”
-Ron Paul

[liskir]

Press Release: A replica of an MQ-9 Reaper drone (1/5 scale) will be on display at UH Hilo Library lanai from 11AM to 1PM Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013

further contact: Jim Albertini 966-7622
Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622 Emai ja@malu-aina.org http://www.malu-aina.org

Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright will be giving a presentation on "Killer Drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Gaza and the US" at UH Hilo, Jan. 17th from 6:30-8PM at STB 108.
(new building on Lanikaula St. across from the Church of the Holy Cross) free street parking and in parking lot near STB after 4PM
This free presentation will be followed by Q&A and the public is invited
Sponsored by UHH Sociology, Philosophy, and Women's Studies Dept., and Malu 'Aina

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The World’s Deadliest Drone:
MQ-9 REAPER

- The MQ-9 Reaper (originally the Predator B) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) (also known as a Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV)) developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for use by the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, Italian Air Force, and the Royal Air Force. The MQ-9 is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance

- Although the MQ-9 can fly pre-programmed routes autonomously, the aircraft is always monitored or controlled by aircrew in the Ground Control Station and weapons employment is always commanded by the pilot. Hence the preference to refer to the MQ-9 as a Remotely Piloted Vehicle

- Operators can hunt for targets and observe terrain using a number of sensors, including a thermal camera. One estimate has the on-board camera able to read a license plate from two miles (3.2km) away

- An operator’s command takes 1.2 seconds to reach the drone via a satellite link

- An MQ-9 with two 1,000 pound (450 kilogram) external fuel tanks and a thousand pounds of munitions has an endurance of 42 hours. The Reaper has an endurance of 14 hours when fully loaded with munitions

- The MQ-9 carries a variety of weapons including the GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb, the AGM-114 Hellfire II air-to-ground missiles, the AIM-9 Sidewinder.[13] and recently, the GBU-38 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition)

For more info see www.knowdrones.com http://twistedsifter.com/2010/05/worlds-...mWfI.email http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...e33503.htm
Drones Kill Innocent People!

"An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped" Dr. Ron Paul 2012

[pahoated]

For every offense, there is a defense. The Germans are making this mobile and they export to everybody:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20944726
A laser weapons system that can shoot down two drones at a distance of over a mile has been demonstrated by Rheinmetall Defence.

UAV are going to be practically ubiquitous anyway. This is one a grandpa made with his grandkids, out of Legos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HSWX3uH5MEM
Flying LEGOs

And one from some Oahu high school kids:
http://www.midweek.com/waipahu-high-stud...uadcopter/
Waipahu High Students Build Aerial Quadcopter

"It was a majority decision to descend into the Dark Ages. Don't worry, be happy, bang on da drum all day!"

[ericlp]

Now if they could just make a drone to kill coqui frogs and blast mosquito's, fire ants and other nasty stuff off your lot ... Plus secure your home for trespassers and stray animals ... I'll be really happy!

[Obie]

I will take two of those!!!

[nana valley]

quote:

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Originally posted by dwedeking

Made up a prototype for you Eric

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a6t0ts6x6oqd8m...killer.jpg

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LOL...[8D][][8D]

[liskir]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/01/wyden-brennan/
Senator Wyden: "Mr. Brennan, just when are drones allowed to kill American citizens?"


"An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped" Dr. Ron Paul 2012

[pahoated]

As with almost every area of science and technology in 2013, drones or UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) development is exploding.

There is a lot of news about honey bees dying off and how that is going to threaten our food supply. Honey bees are carrying pollen from flower to flower by collecting it on fine hairs on their legs. It is now becoming feasible for nano-UAV to supplement and even replace the honey bee in this function and it wouldn't be a random function, so that swarms of nano-UAV could selectively go into different fields. This is a nano-UAV the British troops are using:
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130...fghanistan
Britain Unveils Photos of Nano UAVs in Use in Afghanistan

This isn't quite a nano-UAV but it will only be some time before more miniaturization occurs. It is a UAV dragonfly but it is about the size of a Meganeura dragon fly from the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nj1yhz5io20#!
Festo - BionicOpter

"It was a majority decision to descend into the Dark Ages. Don't worry, be happy, bang on da drum all day! Onward to Elysium."

[csgray]

What a great idea!

Kill off our natural pollinators by using chemicals we don't fully understand the ramifications of, pollinators that have done the job virtually since the dawn of time, and replace them with tiny corporate owned machines that will not produce honey, or pollinate backyard gardens and home orchards. Just another step away from allowing people to feed their own families and another step towards forcing everyone to buy their food from Walmart, that is REAL progress. (Sarcasm alert)

This is very cool technology, but the idea of having machines replace bees for pollination is a chilling one. Instead we need to take a good hard look at the latest studies on the negative effects of the most commonly used pesticides on bees' intelligence" making it hard for them to find their way back to the hive, and limit or ban outright the use of poisons that do that to the bees.

Carol