Drones - Army Wants Tiny Suicidal Drone to Kill From 6 Miles Away

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Army Wants Tiny Suicidal Drone to KillFrom 6 Miles AwayBySpencer AckermanEmail Author

September 10, 2012 |5:31 pm |Categories:Army and Marines, Drones

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Army needs someone dead from up to six miles away in 30 minutes or less.How small will the new mini-drone be? The Armys less concerned about size than it is about thedrones weight, according to a recent pre-solicitation for businesses potentially interested in buildingthe thing. The whole system drone, warhead and launch device has to weigh under five pounds.An operator should be able to carry the future Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System, already

given the acronym LMAMS in a backpack and be able to set it up to fly within two minutes.The envisioned LMAMS, a loitering precision guided munition is designed for quick missions totake out specific targets, and the Armys had its eye on something like it foryears. Its small sizemeans it cant carry a lot of fuel. As first reported by (subscription only)InsideDefense, the Armyneeds it to stay aloft for a half hour at most. But during that half hour, the Army expects it to fly upto six miles to smash into a target, either directed by a human controller or pre-programmedthrough GPS. Whether it speeds to a target fairly distant from where an Army unit is set up or loiters

over one until it gets a clear shot, its another step toward making drone strikes inconspicuous.The Army wants it ready for use by 2016 at the latest. But it may not take that long since theArmys alreadygotsomething similar to LMAMS.There are basically three models for shrinking the drone war. One is to build a tiny munition, so asto weaponize existing small spy drones, like the Raven or the Puma. Raytheons doing that with itsSmall Tactical Munition, a two-foot bomb that weighs about 10 to 15 pounds. A second is to take theexisting functionality and physical specs of existing killer drones and scale it down, as with

California companyArcturus eponymous 17-foot armed spy plane. The third is to mash up dronesand missiles, so a controller remotely pilots a tiny missile and guides it on a one-way mission to atarget. Thats whatAeroVironments much-hyped Switchblade does.LMAMS is more like the Switchblade than the other two. Its not designed for more than one use.Once a target is selected by the operator in the terminal phase of an engagement, thepre-solicitation reads, no further operator input shall be required. Accordingly, its spy tools areminimal: The Army just needs the soldier operating it from a distance to receive real-time video of

the LMAMS flight path. And like the Switchblade, since the drone/missile hybrid is small, it oughtto cause minimal collateral damage: The Army needs LMAMS to have an extremely low probabilityof killing someone 10 meters from its bombs impact.


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Thank you for posting those scriptures. Not only do people need to read them, thewords need to be said to give people either a chance to repent, or otherwise scoff a them

and thus condemn themselves. God's Word is a living thing, sharper than any sword

and as He has said, it does not eturn to Him unfulfilled.

AMEN!


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"The rest of us have a world to run." We see how that's working out.

you think Obama is bad in 'taking away our freedoms' ? Oh my!

You wont have much of a chance under truly evil leaders---Life under

Obama will be like (free) summer camp in comparison---g'luck

Suicidal Drone, it's an INXS song isn't it?

did you mean... the rest of us have a world to 'run' or 'ruin' ?


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BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. WE CAN DESTROY CITIES IN AN INSTANT. THEY

COULDN'T DO THAT BACK THEN!

Cities were destroyed, regardless. What difference does it make how

quickly it happens? Whole cities were pillaged and slaughtered in

antiquity, in the Middle Ages, in the Industrial Age, etc. A description of

"the end times" invariably consists of the same rhetoric, and it has forhundreds and hundreds of years.

LIE???????????? ....NO GOD CAN'T , CAUSE HE IS TRUTH ._____

___________________, BUT THIS SOETERO,OBLAMO, FRAUDSTER SURE

HAS GOOD HANDLE ON IT...

.............A GOOD LIAR, KEEPS LYING, AND THE FOOLS CRY OUT,.. "SAY

SOMETHING ELSE" WITH A GLEAM IN THEIR EYE, DECEIVED BY A DECEIVED

DECEIVER, ALL HEADED TO UTTER ETERNAL DESTRUCTION


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ANYTIME PRIOR TO THE END OF WORLD WAR II.

Um ok.

I fail to see how this has anything to do with the article.

Matthew is a product of public schools.

Then you've really failed. Perhaps a class in humanities, philosophy, or even

poetry might help.


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May killer drones fly out of Obama's butt and smite those who raise a hand against us!

To the ramparts where a glorious death awaits. And get in a group to keep the cost

down for us, will ya?

And UNTIL there is a CHEAP, PRACTICAL, DIRECTIONAL EMP device,

I want these, TOO.

I do not FEAR the Patriots who VOLUNTARILY CHOOSE to enlist and SERVE,

who HONOR their sacred OATH to protect our CONSTITUTION.

But I have NO REASON to TRUST the POWER-HUNGRY "Progressives" with these tools of

DEATH.

And IF they endow DRONES with independent VOLITION and INTELLIGENCE,

What will become of US, then....


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HOW ABOUT IN LESS THAN 6 MONTHS IF OSOMA OBAMA IS RE-ELECTED

BY COUNTING THE VOTES IN BARCELONA SPAIN AND WITHIN 3 YEARS

IF WHITE OBAMA WINS THE ELECTION!

Solyndra Green, that's what becomes of us.

It will be Soylent Green before long if we don't take action....remember thatmovie?

LOL, ITS PEOPLE!!!

ITS PEOPLE!!!...with government funding at tax payer expense to waste time


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Tell that to the people of Syria.

That or worse.

I'm an ex-Progressive as well. Very, very worried about U.S. Northern Border

expansion, BP is building enormous facilities, some with several dozen detention cells,

with very minimal daily border crossings. What's up with that? Obama already useddrone to assist in arrest a farmer having a dispute w/ another farmer. His executive

orders are alarming!

THEY INTEND TO SEAL THE BORDER, SO THAT,


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OUR BORDERS ARE COLLAPSING NOT EXPANDING!

questioning... 'Patriots who VOLUNTARILY CHOOSE to enlist and SERVE'

The USA military occupying foregin lands is ANTI U.S.Constitutuion.

Our soldiers are not dying for Americans but for an attempt at proviing freedom for

people that hate freedom. Further, I would make the statement that these military

campaigns are not even about 'freedom'. Rather they are about carrying out the special

interests of the 'elite'

HISTORY 101. WE ONCE WERE 13 COLONIES. WE EXPANDED WESTWARD

KILLING THE AMERICAN INDIANS WHO WERE THERE FIRST BY THE

TENS OF MILLIONS! WE MADE THE LOUISIANNA PURCHASE AND WE

BOUGHT ALASKA. HAWAII JUST DECIDED TO COME ALONG. DO YOU

UNDERSTAND?


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We've been finding out just what our vote is worth. Zilch.

Your vote is worth zilch because you allow it to be influenced by political

ad campaigns. Well, maybe not you, but millions of other idiots do.

THE VOTES WILL BE COUNTED IN BARCELONA SPAIN FOR

OVER 40 STATES. THE FINAL VOTE TALLIE HAS BEEN TAKEN

BEFORE ANY VOTES HAVE BEEN CAST!

Th bi lik i h h b i d k h


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corporations...people do. People are stupid and allow their votes to be

influenced by ad campaigns. The only correction for that is for people to

take a greater interest in their Republic and protect it.

And I always thought it was the electoral votes that counted! I know ours don't.

Someone thought it would be a great idea for politicians to vote for politicians

and make a parade out of the peoples vote.

There is nothing wrong with the electoral college as it was originally

envisioned. However, somewhere along the way, someone thought it

would be a good idea to restrict their votes to only the sitting political

parties.

So, yes. Your vote does count towards the electoral college vote...but only

if you vote for the "approved" candidate.

Down with the parties.


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Sorry forgot bout the spelling police and you ARE welcome.

It was very deep and insightful if you actually knew the true

definition of delusional! Thanks Again Miss Pannabaker. (my

old English teacher)

I understand the definition of delusional. Hence, my sarcasm

towards you, "slingnpoo."

I'm for killing terrorists any way we can- with Navy Seals or drones.


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Awesome. It ought to scream Allah Akbar just before it hits.

Actually it screams "No Virgins For You!"

Even better: "this is what you get for voting for democrats!"

Isn't there room for a couple of ounces of pig fat?


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The object of war is not blood, honor, guts or glory. It is to win decisively with the

fewest "friendly" casualties in order for a people to live safely from those who would do

them harm. Romanticizing war is dressing up the devil himself.

Oh, this is war. Its just not the kind you want it to be. This is slow, and creeping and

bullets aren't whizzing by your head. But, how else would you even come close to

having a chance at defeating the American people? It cannot be a hot war. remember,

"....there would be a gun behind every blade of grass....."?

So, they fluoridate the water supply. They tell you its good for you. They make youstupid, make you turn on one another, make you think your God is not real, make you

believe they have your best interest at heart, make you believe that life is not worth

anything. Then they pull 9/11, or a Kennedy, or the 7/7, or 8/8 bombings, or the airport

massacre in India, then they take your rights based on the fear they sold you, in the

name of protecting you. When it was all a hoax in the first place. Oh, yes. This is war.


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As long as its the targeted a$$hole dying, who care how they are swatted? War is not

about honor, its about killing as many of the enemy as you can HOWEVER you can.

What if you are the targeted a$$hole?

Then I would be worried :)

Why didn't we simply drop nuclear weapons on Iraq and Afganistan then? I'm

fairly confident we have enough of them to turn the middle east into a crater.


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300 innocent people killed over an 8 year period is not

comparable to wiping out an entire area with a nuclear strike,

im sure al qaeda would have a much higher body count if

they were the ones with the drone technology. Your self

righteous bull crap stinks, im afraid.

Defending targeting an entire nation with nukes because of a

few true enemies is the epitome of self righteousness.

You Self righteous idiot.

Tell that to Madeline, flipping Albright...she thinks 1/2 a million

Iraqis innocents killed was WORTH it.........IRAQIS WHO DID NOT

BOMB US !!! Worth what to who???Worth what to who??? Worthwhat to WHO?

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