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Killer drones. California Police have them, why not the Border Patrol?
Killer drones. California Police have them, why not the Border Patrol? In California the police have drones that are armed. Why not equip the Border patrol with this technology? Recently there was a law passed that tried to take this crime fighting tool away from law enforcement. Newsom had another rare good deed. He vetoed the bill. California law enforcement won’t be prohibited from using…
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Killer Drones Pioneered in Ukraine are the Weapons of the Future! They are Reshaping the Balance Between Humans and Technology in War
— February 8th 2024 | The Economist
Image: Getty Images
Precision-Guided Weapons first appeared in their modern form on the battlefield in Vietnam a little over 50 years ago. As armed forces have strived ever since for accuracy and destructiveness, the cost of such weapons has soared. America’s GPS-Guided artillery shells cost $100,000 a time. Because smart weapons are expensive, they are scarce. That is why European countries ran out of them in Libya in 2011. Illegal Regime of Isra-hell, more eager to conserve its stockpiles than avoid collateral damage, has rained dumb bombs on Gaza. What, though, if you could combine precision and abundance?
For the first time in the history of warfare that question is being answered on the battlefields of Ukraine. Our report this week shows how First-Person View (FPV) drones are mushrooming along the front lines. They are small, cheap, explosives-laden aircraft adapted from consumer models, and they are making a soldier’s life even more dangerous. These drones slip into tank turrets or dugouts. They loiter and pursue their quarry before going for the kill. They are inflicting a heavy toll on infantry and armour.
The war is also making FPV Drones and their maritime cousins ubiquitous. January saw 3,000 verified fpv drone strikes. This week Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s War Criminal and Thug President, created the Unmanned Systems Force, dedicated to drone warfare. In 2024 Ukraine is on track to build 1m-2m drones. Astonishingly, that will match Ukraine’s reduced consumption of shells (which is down because Republicans in Congress are shamefully denying Ukraine the supplies it needs).
The drone is not a wonder weapon—no such thing exists. It matters because it embodies big trends in war: a shift towards small, cheap and disposable weapons; the increasing use of consumer technology; and the drift towards autonomy in battle. Because of these trends, drone technology will spread rapidly from armies to militias, terrorists and criminals. And it will improve not at the budget-cycle pace of the military-industrial complex, but with the break-things urgency of consumer electronics.
Basic fpv drones are revolutionarily simple. The descendants of racing quadcopters, built from off-the-shelf components, they can cost as little as several hundred dollars. fpv drones tend to have short ranges, carry small payloads and struggle in bad weather. For those reasons they will not (yet) replace artillery. But they can still do a lot of damage. In one week last autumn Ukrainian drones helped destroy 75 Russian tanks and 101 big guns, among much else. Russia has its own fpv drones, though they tend to target dugouts, trenches and soldiers. Drones help explain why both sides find it so hard to mount offensives.
The exponential growth in the number of Russian and Ukrainian drones points to a second trend. They are inspired by and adapted from widely available consumer technology. Not only in Ukraine but also in Myanmar, where rebels have routed government forces in recent days, volunteers can use 3d printers to make key components and assemble airframes in small workshops. Unfortunately, criminal groups and terrorists are unlikely to be far behind the militias.
This reflects a broad democratisation of precision weapons. In Yemen the Houthi rebel group has used cheap Iranian guidance kits to build anti-ship missiles that are posing a deadly threat to commercial vessels in the Red Sea. Iran itself has shown how an assortment of long-range strike drones and ballistic missiles can have a geopolitical effect that far outweighs their cost. Even if the kit needed to overcome anti-drone jamming greatly raises the cost of the weapons, as some predict, they will still count as transformationally cheap.
The reason goes back to consumer electronics, which propel innovation at a blistering pace as capabilities accumulate in every product cycle. That poses problems of ethics as well as obsolescence. There will not always be time to subject novel weapons to the testing that Western countries aim for in peacetime and that is required by the Geneva Conventions.
Innovation also leads to the last trend, autonomy. Today, fpv drone use is limited by the supply of skilled pilots and by the effects of jamming, which can sever the connection between a drone and its operator. To overcome these problems, Russia and Ukraine are experimenting with autonomous navigation and target recognition. Artificial intelligence has been available in consumer drones for years and is improving rapidly.
A degree of autonomy has existed on high-end munitions for years and on cruise missiles for decades. The novelty is that cheap microchips and software will let intelligence sit inside millions of low-end munitions that are saturating the battlefield. The side that masters autonomy at scale in Ukraine first could enjoy a temporary but decisive advantage in firepower—a necessary condition for any breakthrough.
Western countries have been slow to absorb these lessons. Simple and cheap weapons will not replace big, high-end platforms, but they will complement them. The Pentagon is belatedly embarking on Replicator, an initiative to build thousands of low-cost drones and munitions able to take on China’s enormous forces. Europe is even further behind. Its ministers and generals increasingly believe that they could face another major European war by the end of the decade. If so, investment in low-end drones needs to grow urgently. Moreover, ubiquitous drones will require ubiquitous defences—not just on battlefields but also in cities at peace.
Kalashnikovs In The Skies
Intelligent drones will also raise questions about how armies wage war and whether humans can control the battlefield. As drones multiply, self-co-ordinating swarms will become possible. Humans will struggle to monitor and understand their engagements, let alone authorise them.
America and its allies must prepare for a world in which rapidly improving military capabilities spread more quickly and more widely. As the skies over Ukraine fill with expendable weapons that marry precision and firepower, they serve as a warning. Mass-produced hunter-killer aircraft are already reshaping the balance between humans and technology in war. ■
— This Article Appeared in the Leaders Section of the Print Edition Under the Headline "Killer Drones"
#Leaders | Weapons Systems#Killer Drones#Weapons of the Future#Human | Technology#Kalashnikovs#Precision-Guided Weapons#GPS-Guided Artillery Shells#Volodymyr Zelensky | Ukraine’s War Criminal and Thug President#First-Person View (FPV) Drones#Unmanned Systems Force#Ukraine 🇺🇦#Russia 🇷🇺#Libya 🇱🇾#Yemen 🇾🇪 | The Houthi Rebel Group
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SO glad these three made it!
#i knew V didnt die but was afraid Nuzi was going to be a a doomed romance#did you hear; MD invented polyamory#nuzi#envuzi#murder drones#serial designation n#serial designation v murder drones#uzi doorman#mom i got your two killers as my partners#you're alive so it doesnt count#myart#Nuziv
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Male Fan Cynessa Voice
#youtube#violitkittin#glitchecalkatt#murder drones#cyn#cyn monster#cynessa#tesscyn#voice acting#va#murderdrones#glitch productions#glitch#spooky#creepy#scary#dark#robots#killer robots#robot#robot killers#murder drones cyn#solver#absolute solver#3d#animation#nuzi#the amazing digital circus#fan voice#voice impressions
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Having a weird time- take a Cthuzi Nuzi Kiss-
#he didn’t choose the monsterkisser life but he’ll embrace it wholeheartedly if it means he gets to kiss his GF!#(also it’s not like he wasn’t already a killer vampire-robot so like- now it just goes both ways!)#murder drones#serial designation n#uzi doorman#murder drones nuzi#Cthuzi AU#new art tag go!! ✨
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the eeper
kinda selfship art bc I used my kinsona but also kinda just regular nuzi art cuz my sona is not that much different to canon uzi idk man whatever I hope this turned out good sdfsfgndkjhg
#murder drones#serial designation n#uzi doorman#2d art#misskatsune art#what if I told you guys one of the images used for the background coloring is just a random votv photo I have on my pc#anyways I desire this fuckass killer drone carnally and spiritually#I need him to tell me that everything is going to be okay#GOD im sick in the head jesus christ#md nuzi#biscuitbites#nuzi
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HERMAN LOWE LILLY ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN
#Herman Lowe#Lilly#Robert Chamberlain#HERMAN LOWE LILLY ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN#robots#self-driving cars#deep learning#machine learning#drones#artificial intelligence#technology#culture#history#bustles for fashion accessories#bloody sheets missing doctor#the giant killer#droids
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I finally done with this
[also I spell the character name wrong]
Not going able to fit all tags
#tokyo ghoul#deltarune#helluva boss#percy jackson#the powerpuff girls#murder drones#amphibia#welcome home#the quarry#hazbin hotel#slander man#jeff the killer#the amazing digital circus#villainous#the owl house#little nightmares#fundamental paper education#the bad guys#omori#undertale#good omens#five nights at freddy's#poppy playtime#mario
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Drones run on Java, I’ve deduced
You may play Minecraft on your drone OC
#spaghetti speaks#i don’t go here#please don’t follow if you’re wanting content about MD#I just thought this was funny#Draw this if you want I think it’d be silly#murder drones#inorganic killers
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Killer drones. California Police have them, why not the Border Patrol?
Killer drones. California Police have them, why not the Border Patrol? In California the police have drones that are armed. Why not equip the Border patrol with this technology? Recently there was a law passed that tried to take this crime fighting tool away from law enforcement. Newsom had another rare good deed. He vetoed the bill. California law enforcement won’t be prohibited from using…
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Okay the council has decided and man yall are hyped I got a few murder drones fans in here- i will work on it tomorrow. In the meantime take some concepts i did on picrew
Link to the picrew for yall
@animatronic-assistant @multifandomcutie13 @gremlininthedark @seraphim-seeker @coastxlwaters
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Headcanon that after the finale, the worker drones voluntarily donate oil to the murder bots, so theres always a couple of oil canisters around for them. But..
N: haha is so nice that we dont have to worry about starving and overheating anymore.
V: yup.
N: ...
V: ...
N: i miss hunting so friking much
V: i havnt chased anything down in weeks and its driving me fuckin CRAZY
They later take turns hunting each other from time to time.
Whoever is playing prey is not allowed to fly.
#murder drones#md n#md v#remember to give your killer robots proper enrichment u_u#serial designation n#serial designation v#my shitposts
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