Defense systems will need to be invented rather quickly for this stuff and it will need to be electronic.
Drone technology happens to be truly scary. What limits it is the need for trained manpower. Yet it is also no trick to order out a swarm of micro drones and to allow short range hunter killer independence similar to a swarm of angry bees.
It can be countered by rapid firing laser weapons which are also becoming operational..
What it is doing is making the soldier even more tech dependent.
Drone Miniaturization, Facial Recognition, Kamikaze Missions
Prediction
On June 9, 2014, Natural News reported Tiny, low-cost drones may one day assassinate corrupt politicians, corporate CEOs and street criminals.
From studying trends in drone development, both in terms of software and hardware, I am now predicting the development of facial-recognition "kamikaze micro drones" capable of carrying out targeted human assassination missions with remarkable precision and reliability. The four trends that will lead to this are:1) Drone miniaturization: The development of mass-produced, affordable "micro drones" about the size of a common bird. These will likely be produced as hobby aircraft which will be easily modified to take on a more aggressive role.2) Facial recognition systems: The miniaturization of facial recognition software / hardware systems which may be deployed on micro drones and powered by very small on-board power supplies.3) Rapid advances in drone manufacturing efficiency, resulting in greater affordability of drone platforms by smaller and smaller groups, including corporations, smaller nations, universities, vigilantes and even activist groups.4) Incremental improvements in the power density of on-board batteries, allowing greater flight time and more CPU-intensive on-board computations.These four trends will ultimately result in the creation of "Kamikaze assassination micro drones" with the ability to search for, identify and terminate a specific human target. It is likely, in fact, that many governments of the world are already working on this technology.This technology will reshape the meaning of "war" by allowing rogue nations like North Korea, for example, to simply ship tens of thousands of such drones into the USA via China, marked as "toys" on import manifests.
What If?
What if anyone could kill almost anyone else for a few thousand dollars?
There will not even be a trace of who did it if the drone obliterates itself in the process.
Two Questions
1) Are assassination micro-drones a good thing?
2) Is this a more realistic worry than rogue nation nuclear war?
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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