Ouch…there goes half the Georgian defense budget…

I came across an interesting article at globalsecurity.org about Predator drones.  I never hear of crashes with the unmanned weapon of death and by happenstance, this article listed several such instances.  The one that really amazed me though was a crash that happened in January 2005.  According to the article

“The incident occurred when the pilot and sensor operators control stations experienced a malfunction with their computer control system. Both control stations were rebooted, but all communication links with the aircraft were lost and never regained. The incident happened approximately eight and a half hours into the mission, with the aircraft flying uncontrolled and crashing approximately 21 hours into the flight.”

I don’t know if you caught that last little bit, but the Predator drone was flying for twelve and a half hours unpiloted before it crashed…TWELVE AND A HALF HOURS!  So basically, you could be sitting on your front porch when a Predator drone launched from Germany comes crashing on your doorstep because the pilot had to reboot his Windows ME installation.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/mq-1b.htm

Imagine if the U.S. Army was developing a 11 inch flying drone that flies like a bat, but scurries like a cockroach…then combine that with the one atom large transistor currently being developed and a material that basically achieves invisibility in Japan…what do you get?

+ + =

11 inch flying cockroach drone

1 atom large transistor

Invisibility

or maybe the robots will just think you’re trying to placate them and vaporize you anyways…

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Juegue hasta que gana!

I don’t know if the Kennedy administration is to blame for this, but the 1965 they are talking about in this article sure didn’t pan out.  But maybe that’s a good thing.

Hell.