The Core
Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: simplytheresa on November 15, 2017, 06:55:45 PM
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This seems not far away at all...
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/11/14/this-fictional-video-about-ai-powered-weapons-makes-the-terminator-look-like-a-disney-film
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The future shown in the video doesn’t look very far off, which is why it’s so incredibly scary. It could be next Tuesday
I'll just drop this here...
http://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-test-mini-drone-swarm-2017-1
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Wonder if a mirror would bugger up their AI.
I was thinking recently the police will probably get in on the drone act. There's been kids in the area causing a few disturbances, mainly in the nearby forest... lighting fires etc. The police are too slow to detect the crimes, so why not fly a drone up.
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The video was made to be a warning probably with the goal of international treaty to prevent autonomous weapons. I think this is a worthy idea, but a bigger problem is that the technology is already at the consumer level.
https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero/wiki/04-Autonomous-drone-programming-in-Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhkGQvb_R8Y
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I hadn't considered that drones could make nuclear weapons mostly obsolete... wow.
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In this, the third year of conflict in eastern Ukraine, Aleksandr's drones have become increasingly visible in the combat zone.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/high-street-uavs-are-being-used-to-fight-the-war-in-ukraine
I can't find it now but approx 18 months ago there was an article about UK army using swarm-tech drones on a practice maneuver. They had the swarm do collective reconnaissance on a village. Anyway, swarm-tech is pretty mature now. It's been 5+ years or so -a lifetime in drone years- since MIT, etc. wow-ed us with a couple of drones playing ping pong.
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DARPA hopes to swarm drones out of C-130s in 2019 test
https://www.navytimes.com/newsletters/daily-news-roundup/2017/12/18/darpa-hopes-to-swarm-drones-out-of-c-130s-in-2019-test/
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>DARPA hopes to swarm drones out of C-130s in 2019 test
Kinda funny: my Dad flew C-130s. Talk about mixing old tech with the new.
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>C-130
STILL very much the go-to workhorse plane for the Coast Guard. I think the new class of c130s is the 130-J or somesuch. My town is the mother base for them on the east coast. I think they beefed up the already beefy frame and engines. My Coastie aviation friends tell me that the wing infrastructure on these is incredible to behold.
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The drone wars have begun.
"A swarm of armed drones attacked a Russian military base in Syria"
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/11/swarm-of-armed-diy-drones-attacks-russian-military-base-in-syria.html
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Well that was interesting til I saw the pic of one of the drones, which looks close to a fly by wire RC plane circa 1965.
Definitely looks like the middle's east's version of an IED from the air. Almost makes me wonder if someone barely noticed these.
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It's definitely a strategy with low personal risk and low barriers to entry.
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> IED from the air
US Army General: Small Drones Biggest Threat Since IEDs
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/02/10/small-drones-threat-us-general/
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Army To Test Its Biggest Interactive Drone Swarm Ever Over Utah
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/army-to-test-its-biggest-interactive-drone-swarm-ever-over-utah
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Looking at the footage in Ukraine it is so obvious that AI driven drones are going to be quite a force in the near future.
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Surface naval ships are now beyond obsolete.
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>Surface naval ships are now beyond obsolete.
US Airforce & US Navy test the co-developed Quicksink ship sinking bomb in the Gulf of Mexico. Much more cost effective than a torpedo or cruise missile.
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/uhkf58/us_airforce_us_navy_test_the_codeveloped/
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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-air-forces-new-ship-killing-smart-bomb-has-sunk-its-first-vessel
Now, the U.S. Air Force is exploring ways it might be able to achieve the same kind of anti-ship lethality with air-launched weapons, including modified 2,000-pound class Joint Direct Attack Munition precision-guided bombs.