ST. LOUIS, April 18, 2004 -- A Boeing Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) X-45 aircraft releases an inert Global Positioning System-guided bomb and makes aviation history today at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Range, China Lake, Calif. The mission was the first time an unmanned autonomous aircraft has dropped a precision bomb on a target from an internal weapons bay. Photo from BoeingWNU Editor: The Mountain Runner has posted a number of past posts that gives recognition to "P.W. Singer's excellent book, Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century" ..... the posts that he has listed are the following:
* Unintended Consequences of Armed Robots in Modern Conflict (Oct 19, 2007)
* The Strategic Communication of Unmanned Warfare (June 1, 2008)
* Combat Robots and Perception Management in the May/June 2008 issue of Serviam
* Robots on the Radio: interviews with Arkin, Asaro, and Armstrong on warbots (June 20, 2008)
There are more at his blog .... the link is here.
My Comment: Since the early 1980s, I have always been interested in the evolution and integration of computers/robot systems into weapon platforms. It is refreshing to read the above posts for their clarity and information. The future is now .... it is just that only a few people are aware of it.
The Mountain Runner is an excellent blog .... each post is never a disappointment.