Stings like a AT-2 Swatter;
Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.The flying robot, nicknamed the "bionic hornet", would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies such as rocket launchers, the daily Yedioth Ahronoth said.
It is one of several weapons being developed by scientists to combat militants, it said. Others include super gloves that would give the user the strength of a "bionic man" and miniature sensors to detect suicide bombers.
Well... that gives new meaning to the phrase "put a bug in yer ass".
Syncro
Interesting how Al-Reuters integrated a nasty anti-Israel bash in this article:
"The war in Lebanon proved that we need smaller weaponry. It's illogical to send a plane worth $100 million against a suicidal terrorist. So we are building futuristic weapons," Peres said.
The 34-day war in Lebanon ended with a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in mid-August. The war killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 157 Israelis, mostly soldiers."
So what impression does the reader get about the latest Lebanon War? Israel lost a comparatively small number of soldiers, versus the almost ten times larger number of Lebanese, implicitly civilians. It also leaves one with the impression that Israel deliberately or by reckless indifference killed a lot of Lebanese civilians
No mention of the fact that most of the Lebanese killed were in fact Hezbollah terrorists. (As well as Syrian and Iranian soldiers and terrorists) No mention of the fact that Hezbollah started the war with killing/kidnapping Israeli soldiers in Israel, plus firing thousands of rockets into Israel, that were deliberately targeted at civilians. No mention of the fact that Israel was fighting a defensive war...or that Hezbollah, Syria and Iran have systematically broken the cease fire terms, with shameless UNIFIL indifference.
Al-Reuters = Ministry of Bullsh*t
Nice catch, Dave.
I've always been partial to a "Pale Rider" solution; individuals, or small groups, of highly talented, straight-shooting roving enforcers, hunting down the nasties with deadly precision (terrorize the terrorists, so to speak). Not a whole lot of collateral damage, if you can drill 6 members of a terrorist rocket crew with 6 bullets. Sounds like "bionic hornets" might do the same thing. I hope the Israelis actually get it right.
Hey, wouldn't it be great to use these things in Iran?!?! Smoke a few hundred (few thousand?) Iranian soldiers with zero damage to the population, and it'll break the regime's confidence maybe... might even inspire an uprising. Ninety percent of the Iranian population hate their oppressors in Tehran; before ya know it, no more mullahs, and peace in Lebanon.
Go go gadget Israel!
Can it be equipped with a am broadcaster to
over welm the local radio and spread propaganda
" Allah Ackbar" should be the
last thing these m... hear.
Like Styn said when Danish cartoon was out.
Everybody everywhere should have published the
image and stood up and said....
" you want to kill ? " then kill us all.
p.s. I
of
stickers I would like to see on bumpers.
EVERYbody... see you on the Kingsway in BC
Every one should get a taste of western Canada
when you get past the mountains and go down to
the sea.
P/S
Pinata and Sticks
jw
Bumper stickers : I (heart) Emerson
and run David Run
Why doesn't Canada develop this sorta stuff?
Gives new meaning, sting to Muhammad Ali's fatwa. ...-
Float like a butterfly,
sting like a bee.
by Muhammad Ali
Those nanos are worser/deadlier than the Rumble in the Jumble, even.
The only concern is....how long until the terrorists get their hands on this stuff?
Remember, terrorist groups have millions (or billions?) in assets/funding. Once a technology like this exists, it won't be long until it gets into the wrong hands.
Israel is already the world leader in nanotechnology. Just look how small the Palestinian territories are getting.
"The war in Lebanon proved that we need smaller weaponry."
True enough, though for multiple reasons. Peres is right to say that "it's illogical to send a plane worth $100 million against a suicidal terrorist." It's also true that dropping a bomb on a building to take out said terrorist exorbitantly increases the odds for collateral damage. As Israel learned last summer, the resulting international PR flak from dead civilians, rendered by a state military force (as opposed to an unlawful combatant), is a greater hindrance to effective warring than any terrorist counter-strategizing. Insofar as military weaponry is a requirement in this day and age, I'm in support of technology that can take out an enemy while reducing the collateral damage to zero.
Dave: No mention of the fact that most of the Lebanese killed were in fact Hezbollah terrorists.
Is that confirmed, or is that your assumption?
further proof the Israelis, God bless them, fully embrace the adage it isnt enough to fight hard you have to fight smart too.
The disappearing “peeness” panic of Khartoum has given me an idea how the Israelis could use them.
These bugs never have to be actually produced. Arabic paranoia about how diabolically clever the Jews are could make just the idea of them into powerful weapons.
First, have high profile useful idiots (Kofi, Jacques, Woody Allen) condemn the very concept and demand Israel immediately cease further research into them. This should be widely reported throughout the Muslim world.
Second, develop a way of quickly delivering millions of bees (leaf cutters, to reduce accusations of stinging the innocent) to enemy strong holds. Swarms of bees would make Hezbollah abandon their positions faster than a conventional attack. You can bet that to save face, lots of them would insist that they were personally attacked by robot bugs.
This beeskrieg warfare could be used repeatedly because the enemy would never be sure if the bees were just bees or a cover for the real robot hornets.
(Personal disclaimer: I do not raise or market leaf cutter bees or any other type of insect.)
Israel is already the world leader in nanotechnology. Just look how small the Palestinian territories are getting.
They hand Gaza - previously controlled by Egypt - to the third-party Palestinians, and the Palestinian "territories" are getting smaller?
"peace through superior firepower".....picked that one up from the brit army...lovely expression....about the only language some people understand....technology will help win the day for democracy/capitalism in this war, just as it has helped us prevail in previous struggles.....GO ARMY
"bionic hornet". What next? Jeez, did "Q" leave the British secret srvice and now is working for Israel?
Technology will be the only thing that saves us from barbarity. Because we sure as hell don't have the intestinal fortitude to save ourselves.
Oh, and just a little Islamic fun:
http://www.nsnews.com/issues06/w111206/113206/news/113206nn1.html
The bionic hornet would not be a terrorists weapon of choice. They prefer to blow up hundreds at a time. Terrorist wish collateral damage, Israel is trying to avoid it.
The Islamists will spin it to say that these bugs are being sent by the Jews to collect the blood of children for the Passover Motza balls (sp?) Strange crew the middle east.
I'm sickened at the ultimate horror that's coming to that spunky little country if we don't de-fang Iran.
Now that the spineless sniveling Dems are back on top in Congress, the chances of doing the right thing is diminished. Pray that Bush, does the right thing on his way out of office. Sometimes in history it's the action a few good people that have changed the outcome against the stupidity and hubris of the innane sheeple.
We live in very dangerous times.
OT - anyone see the riots in Melbourne today on the news? Stupid, stupid, little lackeys of the left doing mayhem and serious violence. We send our youth to college for them to be indoctrinated by fascist leftists denouncing our core values. Sick.
Chill, people. Someone editor at Reuters has been dipping into mass market sci fi, then tasked some poor twit to troll the grant application databases and interview breathless but clueless university PR people. No sensor-bearing bee-sized bionic hornets with even limited tracking capability are anywhere near even demonstration-of-potential stage. The more feasible stuff is actually weirder...
I agree Tenabris.
I especially like the spider robots that find minds then sit on them to blow them up.
one thing about war, it sure advances technology forward.
Actually, it sounds very much like "The Hellhound Project" by Ron Goulart (Analog Magazine, December 1973).
I do like Cal's idea. And 5 years from now all those leaf cutters are the perfect camoflage for the bionic hornet.
After 9/11 I read that the U.S. was abandoning it's next generation of weapons and targeting the development of weapons three generations out. Micro weapons is one of the areas that makes the most sense. Given how close Isreal and the U.S. work together on weapons development I can see this happening sooner than later.
Micro drones that can perch in madrasses,mosques, weapons caches and homes while listening in on conversations just waiting for the command to engage is where the west is heading.
They estimated it would take 10 years to jump 3 generations. That puts the target date at 2010. That means we are 3 years away from the original target date which is what the article states.
Imagine a cluster bomb with a few million micro weapons that can hide in plain sight, stay dormant for weeks then hunt down the bad guys.
Yeah, I too couldn't help noticing the b/s:
"The 34-day war in Lebanon ended with a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in mid-August. The war killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 157 Israelis, mostly soldiers."
...right.
A drone aircraft could have wiped out
150 taliban mourning and burying their dead.
Western culture has eliminated assasination
Geneva convention spared 150 c..joqs
we are at war ...
yet we are dimminified..
we still mourn (for close to) 3000 lives 9/11
It would do me proud to read, hear about
some good old fashioned " eat lead" that the West
could dish out.
When I read about Arafat, ( it's rummoured he was
made fatally ill when his bathtub was coated
with an anti-fungal we know as Tilex. ), I was
kinda saying to myself WOW you don't want the
Mossad pissed at you.
Now a russian spy was
poisoned. A journalist assasinated.
I guess you don't want the Russians pissed at you
either.
P/S
"bionic hands already exist... they are called handcuffs
This sound like a cool idea. They say that you never hear the one that gets you, and it should cause those looney militants to fear the Israelies even more, because they may never know whether they are going to get "stung" or not. They should also develop a way to defend against the robot if it should fall into the wrong hands.
do robot hornets like fake flowers . think i'll send a bouquet to the liberal convention
do robot hornets like fake flowers ? think i'll send a bouquet to the liberal convention
john:
plastic for plastic?
...or fake for fake?