2/23/2023 0 Comments Stolen realm roadmap![]() Today, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Special Operations Command all field drones with names that sound as if they were ripped from a Hollywood script or a comic book: Sentinel, Avenger, Wasp, Raven, Puma, Shadow, Scan Eagle, Global Hawk, Hunter, Gray Eagle, Predator and Reaper. As 2012 began, there were more than 9,500 remotely piloted aircraft in the US arsenal. At the turn of this century, the Department of Defense had ninety drones with plans to increase the inventory by 200 over the next decade, according to Dyke Weatherington, a Defense Department deputy director overseeing acquisitions of hardware for unmanned warfare. ![]() Washington’s post-9/11 military interventions have been a boon for drones. But instead of a self-aware computer network known as Skynet, it’s the American president or his intelligence officials and military officers who determine the human targets to be terminated by unmanned hunter-killer craft. Nearly three decades later, we’re living in an age in which armed robots do regularly surveil, track and kill people. When the first Terminator movie was released in 1984, its HKs seemed as futuristic as its time-traveling cyborg title-character. In some ways, of course, the future is now. It’s the sunny side of a future once depicted in the Terminator films in which flying hunter-killer or “HK” units are sent out to exterminate the human race. The “African Maritime Coalition Vignette, 2030s” is a scenario offered up in Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap, FY 2011-2036, a recently released 100-page Defense Department document outlining American robotic air, sea and land war-fighting plans for the decades ahead. But there’s a reason you’ve never read about this mission in the New York Times or the Washington Post. The entire episode involves a seamless integration of robots and troops working in tandem, of next-generation drones “wired” together and operating in teams, and of autonomous drones making their own decisions. The special ops team then raids the mothership and disrupts the oil pipeline interdiction scheme. “The MQ-1000… immediately conducts an air-to-air engagement and neutralizes the Tipchak,” reads the understated official account of the action. Pre-programmed with the requirements and constraints of the mission, the advanced drone takes off and American commanders let it do its thing. ![]() Unlike the MQ-1 Predator and the MQ-9 Reaper, the MQ-1000 is capable of completely autonomous action, right down to targeting and combat. Special Operations Forces are already en route and, with an armed enemy drone in the skies ahead of them, possibly in peril.īut the Americans have an ace up their sleeve: an advanced Air Force MQ-1000. At the joint maritime operations center, signals intelligence analysts detect the mother ship launching a Russian Tipchak-a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aircraft with “U.S.-derived systems and avionics” and outfitted with air-to-air as well as air-to-surface missiles.
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