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Build Your Own Camera, Launch It Like a Grenade

Posted by timothy on from the sorry-about-the-eye dept.

angry tapir writes "Meet the Firefly. Israeli defense contractor Rafael Armament Development Authority calls it a 'revolutionary concept in tactical intelligence,' but really it's a wireless camera that's shot 500 feet in the air by a grenade launcher. And if a couple of hackers at the Defcon hacking convention get their way, soon anyone will be able to buy this type of military grade technology for only US$500."

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  1. Muahaha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ahahahaha!

  2. Re:What good is this for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's an alternative to tear gas canisters for Israeli soldiers to "accidentally" shoot at protesters' faces.

  3. Never trust a Jew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google: One Third of the Holocaust

    Being deceitful manipulative liars IS their "religion." Hopefully one goes off in the launcher right next to his face.

  4. Re:Mac, a former SEAL by Nick_13ro · · Score: -1, Troll

    showed something like this on FutureWeapons a few years ago.

    The Israelis sure do a lot of good military tech.

    Of course for them it is a necessity, being surrounded by hostile neighbours.

    Hostile neighbors of their own making by coveting their neighbor's land. Funny enough I think they had a commandment about that, but I guess it doesn't apply to non-jews, those are just goyim- cattle, slaves.