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Writing about selective delivering of information




Kimmo Huosionmaa

Have you ever hear term "grey project"? This term means that in some aircraft or some other project the information, what is given is selective, and in those cases the project itself is public. But many important things in it would be hidden from the public. Almost all drone projects are that kind of military projects. The robot itself is seen in the pictures, but the materials, computer programs and electronic components of this drone have kept classified.


Also, important parts of the drones or aircraft motors are kept in secret.  And if somebody makes copies of that aircraft, this actor doesn't actually make anything about it. If those systems are made by using the wrong components,  the aircraft or other equipment would be destroyed immediately, when it goes to the battlefield. Many of space probes are actually so-called "grey projects". The probes like Mars-cars or planet orbiting probes are very public, and we can see the pictures, what those systems might send to Earth.


But the computer programs and electronic equipment of that system are not public. In those projects are tested the autonomous robots, what can be operated in distant space, but at the same time, those same computer programs would be used to control battlefield robots. When the robot takes the sample of some Martian rock, by using laser-spectrometer, we forget that the same system can shoot the tank or another vehicle by using automatized weapon system. This kind of things is sometimes forgotten when some persons write about robots. When we are talking about robots, we must remember, that this thing is similar than Holt-caterpillar in 1915.


This system was created for earthmoving but in the World War one some British engineers installed machine guns in that vehicle, and this transformed those tractors as the device, what is known as the main battle tank. Those Mark I (Female) machine gun tanks took part in the battle of Somme in 15. September. 1916, and that show, how the same product can be used as the civil workhorse and in the war. That tank needed, of course, little bit advantages, before it came to the "king of the battlefield". But the first steps are always difficult.


And sometimes even them would let be undone before something bad would happen. The tanks were invented to save lives of British troops. But in the Second World War the same equipment the same equipment caused terrible losses for allies, in the hands of the enemy. And this is the sad thing. This is the reality in technology. Same products can do in war and peace. But we sometimes forget that every technical part of the world are aggregate and if the producer doesn't get all parts in it, would that equipment be the very big disappointment for everybody.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_World_War_I

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini-Huygens

https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/predator-uav/

https://pimeakronikka.blogspot.fi/
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