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First Robotic Drone Squadron Deployed
coondoggie writes with a link to a Network World blog post on the world's first unmanned attack squadron. The US is deploying a full squadron of combat drones to Iraq this week. These armed and remotely controlled robots can be manipulated from on the ground in the field, or via satellite from thousands of miles away. "The MQ-9 Reaper is the Air Force's first hunter-killer unmanned aircraft. It is the big brother to the highly successful and sometimes controversial Predator aircraft, which General Atomics said this week had flown over 300,000 flight hours, with over 80% of that time spent in combat. The company said Predator series aircraft have flown an average of 8,200 hours per month over the past six months while maintaining the highest operational readiness rates in the U.S. military aircraft inventory. The MQ-9 Reaper is twice as fast as the Predator - it has a 900-horsepower turbo-prop engine, compared to the 119-horsepower Predator engine - and can carry far more ordnance - 14 Hellfire missiles as opposed to two."
How can you guys be so blind this current usa government will bring down the world it really is starting to look WAAAAAAY! to much like all them 80's end of the world movies. Citizens freedoms restricted, more and more data being gathered on each person, near complete control of the media and now robotic death machines!
To all citizens of the United States of America please stop this before it really gets out of hand! and to every one else on them land masses please don't let your governments follow suit.
I beg you as a lover of freedom, love and life stop this before we end up in on of your apocolictic movies.
Citizens of the planet prepare to put on your best dancing shoes so you can take to the streets and rejoice. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their army of flying drones come to LIBERATE you!
We apologize in advance for all of the collateral damage, but remember, freedom comes at a cost and the more infrastructure that is destroyed and the more people that are killed, the more "progress" we make!
What's that fellow US citizens? Enough "liberation" you say? Nonsense! If we stop liberating people who live in countries that had nothing to do with 9/11 then the terrorists win.
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