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  • Team Britannia, World Police. (On a tight budget)
  • captmorgan
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    It’s all very good but we’ve had them for years…

    Richie_B
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    Never ceases to amaze me how much money governments are willing to throw at companies who are trying to perfect the art of killing people in the name of peace…

    When you walk round the average castle/ Napoleonic fort/ World War I or II emplacement and you will see the same lethal ingenuity/ruthlessness. There isn’t much in the way of decoration on any of them, they were all designed to give the defenders some form of advantage. Dover Castle is a brilliant example 2000 years of the advancements we have made in killing each other. The only positive is that investment in military technology and manufacturing eventually trickles down into technologies which often make peoples’ lives better.

    avdave2
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    the advancements we have made in killing each other

    Actually maybe this is a sign of changing values, these devices are designed in part so you don’t sacrifice lives. And of course these are likely to be attacking the oppositions robots rather than people, it’s not as if everyone else isn’t developing such weapons. Winning a war is largely about occupying and holding territory to deny it’s resources to your enemy. In Vietnam the US just concentrated on trying to kill as many Viet Cong  as possible. Operations were launched that were no more than raids, they didn’t hold the ground they’d cleared troops from. Time after time they lost men to take a position only then to withdraw. I guess the point of these weapons is to be your assault force with troops following to secure and hold an area. Far better to defend an area than attack it if you are trying to keep casualties to a minimum.

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    mrb123
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    Here you go Molgrips. Very polite old ED209, at least at first!

    shermer75
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    maccruiskeen
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    These serious logical answers are no fun at all

    Ok then – its so you can get a bike in without having to take the front wheel off.

    CountZero
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    This is possibly the drone equivalent to the little British remote ‘tank’…
    https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/songar-machine-gun-drone/

    The British one is smaller to make it harder for US pilots to accidentally bomb.

    Sadly, so very, very true. It also hasn’t got a Union Flag painted on the top, to make it an easier target for a National Guard A-10 pilot to shoot at from 10,000 ft.

    Northwind
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    somewhatslightlydazed

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    No more than any other lethal weapon. The BBC article states that the weapon will be fired by a human operator as AI isn’t that good. So its just a logical development in stand-off weapons. There not that much difference between one human killing another with an arrow at 300 yards, a rifle at half a mile, or a machine gun from half a world away – you still need to aim at your target and pull the trigger.

    Mmm. There’s a difference between aiming a rifle and pulling the trigger, and sitting in your climate controlled bunker with a keyboard and pad controlling your drone. Much less connection to the reality of your actions.

    FuzzyWuzzy
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    Much less connection to the reality of your actions

    True but also that detachment means emotions and panic reactions don’t come into play, hopefully less chance of an old man with a walking stick getting mistaken for an enemy with a gun by a flawed split second decision. Whether that’s the reality or not I don’t know, there’s obviously been a lot of civilian deaths due to drone strikes but I assume most of that comes from it being far more difficult to identify targets from the air rather than some gung-ho yank wanting to blast anything that moves as if he’s in a video game.

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