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Re:Waterproof Quadcopter Is Also a Submarine by deugtniet on Sunday December 06, 2015 @04:32AM (#10684795)
Horrifyingly, drones are already being used as nuclear weapons. The Russians recently 'leaked' a new torpedo design with all the characteristics of a drone, being able to find its way through thousands of miles of ocean, finding a target and if this target is acceptable destroying a whole harbor zone. Doomsday drones --or machines if you will-- are likely already in place and able to decide to blow up the world in an instant. I don't like thinking about the capability of these superpower nations.
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Re:Waterproof Quadcopter Is Also a Submarine by vlehto on Sunday December 06, 2015 @05:57AM (#10684930)
Also submarine launched radio controlled "drones" carrying nukes have been around since 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSM-N-8_Regulus

The only reason why it's called "cruise missile" is because it's self destructing. That's hardly of any tactical importance when talking about nukes.

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Re:Waterproof Quadcopter Is Also a Submarine by jacquesm on Sunday December 06, 2015 @06:08AM (#10684948)
> Doomsday drones --or machines if you will-- are likely already in place and able to decide to blow up the world in an instant.

What do you base that on?

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Re:Waterproof Quadcopter Is Also a Submarine by deugtniet on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @08:16AM (#10696107)
No facts, only that it's relatively easy to implement such a system. Add to this the fear that the other party may have implemented a doomsday device, and it becomes easy to rationalize the need for such a device.

I would even argue the operators in nuclear bunkers are already part of a doomsday device if they have orders to automatically launch an attack if their country has been struck by nuclear weapons.

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