Moral Code for Predator UAV

Ron Arkin, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has created software which could be the start of a moral code for military robots. The code stops UAV predator drones from firing at enemies within cemetery...

$100 Million UAV Contract Sold to Undisclosed Foreign Buyer

Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) has recently unveiled a kamikaze munitions drone, known as HAROP. The UAV is classified as a Loitering Munitions system. The drone searches and patrols an area, when a target is...

The "eye in the sky" keeps Soldiers out of harm's way

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide Soldiers with the capability to see activity surrounding an objective without detection. "A group of insurgents waits in the dark to ambush a convoy. They sit patiently,...

United State spy in sky, 12 miles high

If at all they can put this fuel technology in heavier vehicles. Even one month on air without refueling would be good enough in the current scenario of fast depleting bio-fuels.Military technologies that has such great potential like this should be released to the public...

Pak’s Defense Private Sector Emerges with Indigenous Drones

Back in 1970, the American Army Gen. William Westmoreland is reported to have said: “On the battlefield of the future, enemy forces will be located, tracked and targeted almost instantaneously through the use of data links, computer-assisted intelligence and automated fire...

The Stuff I Didn't Get To -- 1/28/07

"-John McCain is nuts-Sidney Blumenthal: "A few months ago, McCain suddenly rushed up to a friend of mine, a prominent Washington lawyer, at a social event, and threatened to beat him up because he represented a...

A Free Market -- A Very Unusual Free Market

What's so unusual about it? It's the only market place where governments are the only customers.  

BBC NEWS | Americas | High hopes for drone in LA skies

UAVs or drone aircraft are being used by the LAPD to keep an eye on, well, you and me. Hooray! Robot Policemen. Popular culture (Robocop, The Terminator series) says this does not end well. And remember what those armed drone aircraft are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq: ...

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