Killer Flying Robots Are Here. What Do We Do Now?

Post by mosselman » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 11:29 AM UTC

egberts1 wrote: post #5

I am reminded of a Hollywood grade-B movie where it depicted a small foot-long air-to-surface missile that can assassinate by identity. I don’t recall the name of the movie there. Much like the 1976 movie “Drive-In” showed how an airplane can crash into a skyscraper, such inspiration is misguided. “Drive-In” IMDB: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0074433/?ref_=fn_al_tt_0

Post by throwaway316943 » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 12:01 PM UTC

imtringued wrote: post #6

It's been a century of carpet bombing, 6 decades of ICBMs and conventional guided missiles, 4 decades of cruise missiles and somehow it's the collateral damage minimizing drones that are breaking the camels back? A lot of modern military tech is built around killing less and less, only as much as necessary but the fear density (fear per victim) keeps going up. My guess is that the lack of deaths makes each death more…

Post by throw0101a » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #14

imtringued wrote: post #6

It's been a century of carpet bombing, 6 decades of ICBMs and conventional guided missiles, 4 decades of cruise missiles and somehow it's the collateral damage minimizing drones that are breaking the camels back? A lot of modern military tech is built around killing less and less, only as much as necessary but the fear density (fear per victim) keeps going up. My guess is that the lack of deaths makes each death more…

The difference is that ICBMs, cruise missiles etc. are in the hands of major organized militaries. The article doesn't complain too much about organized militaries using drones. In 10-20 years, "small killer robot swarm" will be achievable for a single individual. It won't be as terrible as a world war, but I'm not looking forward at extremists randomly blowing up people with lightly modified COTS drones.