In this video, exclusive to PopSci.com, Captain Adam Brockshus narrates a Hellfire missile strike on a group of insurgents in Afghanistan. As a Predator instructor pilot, Brockshus was called into the Ground Control Station to oversee a former student who was taking his first shot in combat.
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The insurgents under fire here gave themselves away when, apparently, they accidentally detonated an IED they were trying to set up. The pilot's instructions were to target the second man in the group.
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And that would be what it looks like to die.
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im tryin to figure out if that thing flying on the upper rite side of the screen is a person or not
I believe it is.... :/
I realize that we just watched some terrorists get killed. and I realize that this enemy is going to be punished by this technology more than most... But what if we were fighting a country that was technologically parallel to us? What this means is we don't have fighter pilots or bomber crews getting shot out of the air and killed.
Now if we could just get robotic soldiers that are ran from a bio-suit from a base in the USA we would never have another soldier death. I'm all for it.
There goes peaceful sleep.
The problem is, what happens when the people we're fighting have this technology too and we're are all fighting robots against robots?
When two enemies have the same technologic advantage it will most likely be the civilians and infrastructure that will suffer. Strikes against military factories and recourses as they did in WWII.
It seems that at least two of the group have some life left in them. Will the drone now follow them back to their buddies and perform another incomplete group kill? I could see following the survivors through there complete support system.
Interesting that it came in so fast. They don't even seem to look in the direction of the incoming blast.
Yes, that is a body flying through the air.
This sort of clip would make essential viewing at any terrorist training camp.
It might be good propaganda, but it does give the bad guys an idea of the technology. How to avoid being singled as a target, or even arranging that a group of innocent civilians are mistakenly targetted.
Denis Darzac.
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Denis Darzac.
Scientists created Geek? A form of primitive pre life.
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Ending life becomes a trivial matter. I don't want to see this kind of stuff. I understand that these things have to happen but I don't seek this kind of image out and I would prefer that polite browsing areas not put such images into my head.
Amazing, that the guys were talking like if they were playing a game. It's sad that war is now a cowards game.
In local news, Afghan resistance reported that a wedding party was attacked in an air strike when they were on their way to give donations to the local religious center, part of their 'Falafels for the children' program.
maybe if we make human life cheap enough, people can finally survive-HOW? if there were a foreign power on the ground in the U.S., with this capability, that might be me, or someone you care about, and at the rate of our financial collapse, it really ain't all that farfetched. not even mentioning that no nation since Hitler's Germany has been as hated as we are now, thanks to the U.S. sanctioned massive world ripoff that is still underway. on 9-11, as George stood there and guaranteed a million a head that he did not have the Senate approval to do-3 billion, that took 6 billion to actually pay out-I knew what was coming. my estimates were so juvenile, though, as I estimated they'd steal 200-250 billion with a total of 750b more debt. this technology, while cheaper than other options, can still be defeated by a guy with a decent rifle and 1 bullet. we still cannot win in the long run this way, people. and the republicans are no longer interested in the public good or fiscal responsibility so don't look for the people who helped America in WWII, or any like them. if we bank on this and the other megabuck systems to defend us and the enemy can defeat the tech in the same old ways, but we don't have the real troops anymore after the crap that has been done to our soldiers in this war, then what?