Randomness

[ewan]

The possibility of the enemy finding the frequency and using it is somewhat fightening...

[maddox]

Use it in countries were the highest form of guided missiles are suicide bombers.
Not much chance that the enemy has any clue what is happening.

[typhoon_driver]

mario i wouldnt be so sure.

in every country there are always people who know all about technology etc

i think that the americans are probably thinking along the same lines, good luck to the soldiers that fight with them is all i can say.

im not happy going near an active heavyweight, let alone one that has a rifle on it.

[aliboy]

they also self destruct

[ewan]

Yeah, Ive got to think along the lines of what Gary is saying. There will always be a geek or two in these terrorist movements.

Making remote controlled machine gunners off near your base is like setting a suicide bomber on the loose. None of the soldiers working with the machines would know if they are under their own control apart from the controller himself.

I really do hate the way Americans do stuff...

[robotic_ants]

Are the English really stupid enough to think that they would put it on a std. frequency and without encryption, plus im sure its not as simple as a sky sports 6 transmitter controls.

[anukhet]

The point is theyre using these machines against insurgents. This is the new name for anyone who stand in opposition to their country being forcibly occupied. Just send in the machines to take pot shots at anything that moves then you cant blame the soldier for doing wrong but its easy to blame the technology. No one is then accountable for their actions.

Mario said quote:

Use it in countries were the highest form of guided missiles are suicide bombers. Considering how miltary technology did for the US in Vietnam and for the Soviets in Afghanistan fighting a tenacious and determined enemy relying on their local knowledge, ingenuity and living on their wits. The suicide bomber form of guided missile is maybe the best so-called technology known to humankind.
Sorry about my political rant but to me all this is wrong, very wrong.

[maddox]

War is always wrong, and the last resort of politicians to unleash.

Vietnam and Afghanistan are being lost, because technology is kept on a leash. To keep it humane. Politicians interfering of something that has to be done by dedicated persons, with the right knowledge.
You could see it like Blair dictating me how to construct a FP ram. It will go wrong. Or the thing is very clumsy, but safe, or it will be unsafe.

[babeth]

The French King Louis XIV had the following text engraved on his cannons: Ultima Ratio Regum. (See this website for a little bit of explanation: http://www.dogtulosba.com/archives/000312.htmlhttp://www.dogtulosba.com/archives/000312.html )
Nowadays it seems that just about every weapon belonging to USA forces should be stamped with the following...

Guns:
Pax Americana (The peace of America)
Orbis Non Sufficit (The world is not enough)

Guided missiles and precision bombs:
Neutiquam erro (I am not lost)

Airforce One:
Asinus asinorum in saecula saeculorum (The jackass of jackasses in the centuries of centuries or The greatest jackass in eternity)