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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by look_lookatme on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:52AM (#6730997)
I should say, a weapons equipped version. I can imagine these things being both agile enough to perform in urban environments and fast enough to perform in rural, open environments.

Imagine a dozen of these swarming an objective in Afghanistan, expiring their batteries over the course of a 30 minute attack, disappearing, and just when the combatants thought it was safe, another dozen show up because there is a drone acting as a recharging hive for dozens of these things and it's is doing slow circles around the objective.

That's sci-fi sounding and yet seemingly plausible.

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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by jwr on Thursday November 14, 2013 @02:02AM (#6731026)
"An objective", "combatants" -- you mean people, right? If so, say it.

We should not hide the uncomfortable truth.

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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by look_lookatme on Thursday November 14, 2013 @02:13AM (#6731052)
Oh sure, I don't mean to validate the dehumanizing language of the military, it's just how I wrote it. At least I didn't refer to these things as being instruments of kinetic operations.

Not that the machines care much about that, though.

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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by WalterSear on Thursday November 14, 2013 @02:35AM (#6731115)
Neither does the government, these days.

'To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama re-defined "militant" to mean "all military-age males in a strike zone"'

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/

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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by Fuzzwah on Thursday November 14, 2013 @12:37PM (#6733753)
This thread reminded me of one of my favourite skits from Mitchell & Webb, Needlessly Ambiguous Terms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY

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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by sanoli on Thursday November 14, 2013 @11:44AM (#6733313)
Wow, I didn't know about that. That's ridiculous. I remember watching this comedy bit from Chris Rock about the end of the 'innocent bystander', and I never thought it would actually happen one day.
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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by eru on Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:57AM (#6731525)
No female militants?
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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by speeder on Thursday November 14, 2013 @05:26AM (#6731601)
Of course there is, why else.Obama would explode the 67 year old grandma with a direct hit while she was at.home with her grandchildren while enjoying her flower garden? ( and yes, this actually happened )
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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by WalterSear on Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:08PM (#6735597)
Why indeed, Mrs. Sartre?

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/imxb8IShtoc/hqdefault.jpg

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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by RogerL on Thursday November 14, 2013 @10:16AM (#6732744)
Skeet practice.

IOW, pretty easy to defend against with a shot gun, netting around your position, and so on. An air strike, on the other hand, not so much.

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