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Kimmo Huosionmaa
Weapons don't kill, people behind weapons kill. This phrase is well known from the National Rifle Associations bandoleers when they are supporting free right to carry weapons. And the protectors of the drone programs says that those drones save lives of own soldiers. This is the problem in the conflict situations. Regular or low-rank soldiers are always doing dirty work in those areas, and in the modern conflicts, there would be no change to leave at the prisoner. In the war against terrorism, the extortion and killing the soldiers, who left in hands of opposite side is very common.
And this makes of course very bad psychiatric problems for those soldiers, who serve in that area. The problem with those operations is, that it's very difficult to get involved in the actions of those pilots and land groups. This is the reason, why drones are very commonly used in those conflict areas. The military commander can remove the man from the seat if there seem to be problems, or the person would get too angry. If that happens in some aircraft the aborting that mission is the only change to stop unwanted action. But if some drone operator would get angry, that man can be changed in the middle of the mission.
There is one thing what is clearly visible in the talking about drones. The robot soldiers face the resistance by the states, what have not skills to produce those weapons. And if course the drones are growing opportunity and threat for military forces around the world. When we are thinking the drones as the improved missile systems, we will face the situation, where cheap and effective drones are handling the situations, what are reserved to STEALTH aircraft, what is suspected useless. The problem with new kind of weapons is that they can knock down STEALTH aircraft if that is located.
One version of those weapons is microwave-band radar, what allows the flight group like whip off other aircraft from their route. And the prize of STEALTH aircraft is very high, what makes creating the cheaper choice very attractive thing. And this is why drones are created. The supporters of the drones are saying, that those weapons and their crews are cheaper to make and operate. The prize of training of drone operator is about 100 Dollars and that person can replace immediately if there are problems. New kind of naval drones can operate from underwater bases, and they can be remotely controlled. Their support bases can be installed with underwater cables, and they can deliver from airplanes or other naval ships. Underwater drones can also be full-scale submarines, what operates independently under the sea.
Those robot-submarines would have enough electricity for supercomputers. And those supercomputers like Cray would have enough calculation power for independent operations. This is why full-scale submarine drones are so fascinating thing to think. Also, some of those drones might be torpedo-shaped RTG powered miniature extreme long-range torpedoes, what would patrol at the ocean. And they might equip with the nuclear warhead, what can be launch in harbors. This kind of systems is very effective and devastating. They can also equip with electromagnetic warheads like microwave weapons, and they can escort nuclear submarines when they are driving underwater in the deep blue sea.
The human shape robots, what operate undersea are capable to stay underwater even in years, and when we are talking about secret underwater complexes, the operators of those robots should not even know, where that robot operates. This would make the information security better with those drones, what cannot tell anything if somebody would catch them. In the world of the military, the mission is to be effective. And that's why drones are taking the place of the highly trained military operators.
Controllers of those devices must not pass any physical tests, and if some mission would go wrong, there would be no own victims in that operation. Every military commander in the world wants to minimize own victims, and that is one reason, why robots are taking place of humans in the front line. This makes of course very bad things in the international operation area. And one of the biggest threats is, that use of force in conflict situations would become easier.
Sources :
https://www.defensenews.com/newsletters/tv-next-episode/2018/04/16/swarms-of-underwater-drones-may-come-to-the-navy/
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