Robotic Guns
Scary, but philosophically no different than land mines:
Developed by state-owned Rafael, See-Shoot consists of a series of remotely controlled weapon stations which receive fire-control information from ground sensors and manned and unmanned aircraft. Once a target is verified and authorized for destruction, operators sitting safely behind command center computers push a button to fire the weapon.
igloo • July 2, 2007 9:03 AM
Not quite so bad as a land mine or scattered cluster bomblets in that it still needs a human bean to pull the trigger. At least it can be remotely (de)activated. The scary thing would be if full control was passed to so-called ‘intelligent’ sensing control programs that would quite happily mis-identify an innocent child as a terrorist – oh! hang on! a human bean can do that too….