Thursday, October 20, 2011

The scary prospect of global drone warfare...

Even non-state actors are involved. Hezbollah reportedly has deployed an Iranian-designed drone. Iran is developing a new drone aircraft with a range of more than 600 miles. These systems are used mostly for surveillance, but it is not difficult to equip the aircraft with missiles and bombs. Recently in Massachusetts, a man was arrested for plotting to place explosives on a drone aircraft and fly it into the Pentagon or the Capitol building. Private contractors are getting into the business as well. We now have companies offering drones-for-hire.

What kind of a future are we creating for our children? We face the prospect of a world in which every nation will have drone warfare capability, in which terror can rain down from the sky at any moment without warning.

Military planners are developing technologies for autonomous drones, aircraft that are supposedly "intelligent" and can make their own decisions on when to unleash lethal force. Will we give machines the power to kill people? Full story...

Don't miss:
  1. The civilian victims of the CIA's drone war...
  2. "Deadly drones a video game for CIA officers" 
  3. Victims of US drone attacks in Pakistan are mostly civilians...
  4. Remote control murder: drones operated from Nevada and Virginia... 
  5. Unmanned drones and the militarisation of UK policing...
  6. py drones to swarm over Britain by 2012?
  7. elcome to GPS Big Brother America...
  8. oogle to use 'spy drones' for street mapping?
  9. olice to use drones to spy on Americans?

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