U.S. Opposes a Ban on Killer Robots–A New Autonomous Form of Warfare–Ahead of U.N. Weapons Summit

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[–]Noam_Chomsky 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

Why waste a drone when a bullet will do the trick?

Mini Drones with infrared cameras. And bullets.

Everyone has seen videos of anti missile gatling guns.

Marketing.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

Marketing

Yeah, but they exist already. If you watch them closely you can see that they aren't shooting regular bullets. They are shooting small guided missiles. They look like tracer rounds because they have an exhaust. They also have a non ballistic trajectory.

[–]Noam_Chomsky 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

Guided or not, they won't hit a missile going mach 2.

Also, drones are small and cheaper.

They can shoot from above (out of range), and wait for their target(s).

A swarm of 5-10 drones could take out most groups.

You'd never know they were there until the rounds were flying.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

They just have to get in the way. Missiles going mach 2 aren't maneuverable.

[–]Noam_Chomsky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

You're describing impossible timing.

Missle defenses are an illusion. They're nearly impossible to intercept/block. MIC boondoggles.

Most of them will get through.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

No timing required. Determine the trajectory and send a rocket down that trajectory in the opposite direction.

[–]Noam_Chomsky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

No timing required.

This could work if you could:

Determine the trajectory and send a rocket down that trajectory in the opposite direction.

How would you determine this?
There's a radar that does this for artillery, but it can only determine this info after the ordinance land. It can't see the future.

You are proposing an interceptor that doesn't require precise timing. It's a contradiction.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Your belief in the limitations of top secret military tech is silly. The travel time of missiles will allow for several minutes of calculations. Some guessing will be involved, but given that you already know where your high value assets are it's quite an educated guess.

[–]Noam_Chomsky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The travel time of missiles will allow for several minutes of calculations.

Israel has the best "iron dome" US taxpayers can buy, yet the slowest, crappiest rockets imaginable keep getting through. Regularly.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Isreal keeps shooting those rockets at itself to collect ungodly amounts of welfare money from countries around the world. They receive more aid than any other country despite being one of the richest per capita. Those "rockets" conveniently NEVER kill anyone.