+ 전쟁터에 벌레처럼 엄청 작은 무인폭격기 드로이드가 들어온다

 

전쟁터에 벌레처럼 엄청 작은

무인폭격기 드로이드가 들어온다

War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs

 

June 20, 2011, New York Times

 

 

이것이 스파이 짓을 하는 것만 아니라 사람을 살해하기도 하는데 그야말로 벌레나 작은새 정도밖에 안된다. 소위 프레데터 드로이드다. 미국방성은 현재 7,000대를 갖고 운영하는데 장차 조종사가 조종하는 폭격기는 사라질 전망이다. 그대신 원거리에서 드로이드를 조종하는 전자게임전 조종사를 훈련시키겠다고 한다. 이일을 위해 국방부는 50억불( 한화 6조원)을 증액신청하고 있다.

그 아래기사는 드로이드를 써서 미국의 비밀 전쟁에 컴퓨터 무기로 쓴다는 이야기다. 그들은 전쟁터에 군인을 보내지 않으니 경비가 줄어들고 사상자나 부상병을 내지 않으니 국민여론이 나쁘지 않을 것이라 하며 드로이드 전쟁전술을 적극 지지한다는 이야기이다.

이제 인류는 로보트 전쟁에 노출되었다. 벌레 같은 것이 날아와서 사정도 모른 채 황천으로 가는 어이없는 일이 벌어지는 것이다.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/20drones.html

요약멘트 http://blog.daum.net/petercskim/7863599

 

 

War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs

 

June 20, 2011, New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/20drones.html

Military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones ... to the size of insects and birds. The drones in development ... are designed to replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world. “We’re looking at how you hide in plain sight,” said Greg Parker, an aerospace engineer, as he held up a prototype of a mechanical hawk that in the future might carry out espionage or kill. An explosion in aerial drones is transforming the way America fights and thinks about its wars. Predator drones ... are by now a brand name, known and feared around the world. But far less known is the sheer size, variety and audaciousness of a rapidly expanding drone universe, along with the dilemmas that come with it. The Pentagon now has some 7,000 aerial drones, compared with fewer than 50 a decade ago. Within the next decade the Air Force anticipates a decrease in manned aircraft but expects its number of “multirole” aerial drones like the Reaper — the ones that spy as well as strike — to nearly quadruple, to 536. Already the Air Force is training more remote pilots, 350 this year alone, than fighter and bomber pilots combined. “It’s a growth market,” said Ashton B. Carter, the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer. The Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $5 billion for drones next year, and by 2030 envisions ever more stuff of science fiction: “spy flies” equipped with sensors and microcameras to detect enemies

Note: Ashton B. Carter, CIA director John Deutch, and executive director of the 9/11 Commission Philip Zelikow co-authored a 1998 article in the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs, titled "Catastrophic Terrorism". It predicted, years in advance, a massive attack on the World Trade Center that would result in loss of civil liberties, detention without charge, torture, and endless wars abroad. The Pentagon's weapons-buying spree, now including billions of dollars for drones to be used over US soil, and for which Carter is the "chief weapons buyer," would have been impossible without the 9/11 attacks.

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Drones, computers new weapons of US shadow wars
June 16, 2012, MSNBC/Associated Press

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47842756/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/drones-computers-new...

Drone aircraft spy on and attack terrorists with no pilot in harm's way. Small teams of special operations troops quietly train and advise foreign forces. Viruses sent from computers to foreign networks strike silently, with no American fingerprint. It's war in the shadows, with the U.S. public largely in the dark. The high-tech warfare allows Obama to target what the administration sees as the greatest threats to U.S. security, without the cost and liabilities of sending a swarm of ground troops to capture territory; some of them almost certainly would come home maimed or dead. But it also raises questions about accountability and the implications for international norms regarding the use of force outside of traditional armed conflict. "Congressional oversight of these operations appears to be cursory and insufficient," said Steven Aftergood, an expert on government secrecy issues for the Federation of American Scientists, a private group. "It is Congress' responsibility to declare war under the Constitution, but instead it appears to have adopted a largely passive role while the executive takes the initiative in war fighting," Aftergood said in an interview. That's partly because lawmakers relinquished their authority by passing a law just after the Sept. 11 [attacks]. In this shroud of secrecy, leaks to the news media of classified details about certain covert operations have led to charges that the White House orchestrated the revelations to bolster Obama's national security credentials and thereby improve his re-election chances.

 

Note: For deeper analysis of the threats posed to American citizens by military and police drones in the skies, click here. For information on a federal recent law compelling the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to fly in US skies, click here. For more information on the use of drones by police in the US, click here. For lots more from reliable sources on surveillance in the US, click here.