Is that a swam of locusts? No, it's a swarm of killer robots! Run for the hills!
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Instead of expecting a swarm of bugs, the enemies of "freedom" can soon expect to see a swarm of hive-mind micro-drones targeting them.
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“This is the kind of cutting-edge innovation that will keep us a step ahead of our adversaries," said Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.
The Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office successfully tested a swarm of 103 'Perdix' micro-drones, all released from the air by three F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets, this past October although the official DoD report only came out on January 9th.
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The micro-drones measure about 6 inches long, and successfully demonstrated they can withstand "speeds of Mach 0.6, temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius, and large shocks—encountered during ejection from fighter flare dispensers."
The drones use artificial intelligence to arrive at collective decision-making, arrange themselves and specific flying formations, and even self-repair.
They were tested over China Lake, California
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The goal is to develop fully autonomous systems to take over and accomplish missions that were previously carried out by larger and more expensive drones.
"Due to the complex nature of combat, Perdix are not pre-programmed synchronized individuals, they are a collective organism, sharing one distributed brain for decision-making and adapting to each other like swarms in nature"
Each Perdix unit collaborates with every other unit, where there is no leader in the swarm which allows it to gracefully adapt to new members and touring the collective.
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The hopes from military strategists is that these tiny drones will be cheap to produce and will overwhelm an opponent's defenses through greater numbers.
This technology was originally created by MIT in 2013, and its further development draws inspiration from the commercial smartphone industry.
The military strives to merge existing commercial technologies (like micro-drones and artificial intelligence) into the design of new weapons. The current design is in its sixth generation of development, and the goal is to produce the Perdix micro-drone in batches of up to 1,000 units at a time. The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) and Defense Industrial Unit-Experimental, or DIUx, are teaming up to find companies that can mass produce these drones.
It seems President Obama's term in office will also end with drones in the news as he gave his farewell speech last night.
He was awarded the "Nobel Peace Prize" pretty much as soon as he got into office while having already signed off on the execution of people around the world through drone strikes.
Obama ends his presidency with 26,171 bombs dropped in 2016 alone! What a "peaceful" guy indeed :/
References:
- DoD shows off its first successful micro-drone swarm launch
- Department of Defense Announces Successful Micro-Drone Demonstration
- Pentagon successfully tests micro-drone swarm
- Swarm of micro-drones with 'hive mind' dropped from fighter jets in US military test
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Thank you :)
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Made this video below awhile ago, the micro drone cgi came from the air force youtube channel. These are likely already in use, anything you see released officially is years behind what they actually have.
Where this is heading is not good. The weapons of war are always used against the people of the nation that created them. The Police will be replaced by transhumanist machine like people and drones, the world we will be living in will be awful if we continue on the path we are on.
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I need a drone-swatter. Or some drone-tape. Or at least a drone-net to hang up around the cot at night.
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I saw some drones in a movie that looked like insects that infiltrated the house of suspected terrorists. They were camera equipped and remote controlled. I don't know how realistic they are but looked pretty real to me.
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The drone war is coming :)
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Drone technology is really getting impressive. You can look at an old post of me on bridge building, ball catching and some nano drones flying in integrate patterns by following the link. Drones
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Why are web kr using this technology to help people? A swarm of bees amcan collectively attack a beehive to get food for the whole army. Why are we not using our manmade swarms to go collectively gather clean water for areas that need it to gather crops and fruitsmore effectively. Why?!!!!! Lol
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Yeah, focus more on living and less on death hehe. Humans are overall death-dealers. Billions and billions of innocent animals murdered each year when we don't have to. Time to look in the mirror if we want real psychological change to happen.
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Yes like a mirror! That's kinda what I see of the world at times. Like I see what you guys are doing but I can't process it until later after I come to. Mirrors are a fascinating subject.
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Interesting. I can imagine a swarm of these little drones being unleashed to disperse a crowd for example. I don't see it being effective on a group of people dressed in military attire with helmets & goggles, but for crowds of normally dressed civilians it would be.
If the drones were programmed to target the eyes and face of a person at the minimum they could distract from their attention or interfere with eye / hand coordination.
For quite some time I've had the idea of using small drones or similar model aviation tech as a way to blind spying cameras that are out of reach, for example those used for red light cameras that issue tickets. Fortunately the trend appears for that use case to be fading away.
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Well for now hehe. But when they mount some gun or laser, or kamikaze bomb... then it's a weapon hehe.
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This is becoming unbelievable. Attention all hackers, prepare yourselves to hack into and take control of these little monsters. I think these things are being made to come after the people and not enemy states. "Adversaries" is a very general word.
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So small yet so Powerful! Awesome! Keep sharing
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