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Air Force's Killer Bugbots Attack
The U.S. military has been working for a while on tiny, buglike drones — to serve as miniature flying spies, Defense Department robot-makers say. But this video, from the Air Force Research Laboratory, shows that the military is also interested in turning these "Micro Air Vehicles," or MAVs, into biomorphic weapons that can lie in secret for weeks at a time — and then strike an adversary with lethal accuracy.
"Individual MAVs may perform direct-attack missions," says the video's gravelly voiced narrator. "They can be equipped with incapacitation chemicals, combustible payloads or even explosives for precision-targeting capability."
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7hidden7agenda7 January 24, 2009 4:58:01 AM CET
having said that maleman, Some microwave emitters covering likely ingress points for the mav's would probably do nicely... unless they're using the camoflage tech the chinese r developing, which would render it invisible to potentially all em frequencies. maybe time to fit a waterfall to my hallway I'd like to see one fly through that to get in :P
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7hidden7agenda7 January 24, 2009 4:53:30 AM CET
well, em sheilding would have been one of my prerequisites if I was leading the design team, but I'm sure the USAF don't consider such things important. Especially if the equipment necessary to generate a pulse with enough energy to effect the mav's, isn't readily available to the general population (ie it's intended function)
