A UAS topic that’s ripe for exploration
May 24, 2012 at 3:38 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer’s strong views highlight a topic that gets more important and controversial with every breakthrough in UAS technology: the relationship between UAS and civil liberties. Continue Reading
I would encourage you to talk to any number of UND UAS majors in the aerospace department. They would love to talk your ear off on this, their favorite subject. It is indeed a very hot button issue. These kids will be on the forefront of figuring it out.
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Nomally i tend to agree with Krauthammer on a lot of his views.
However, UAV’s offer so much more than just battlefield applications.
A person needs to be able to get past the pictures of hellfire missles and bombs and look at the stateside applications.
Do you realize that less than 10% of all UAV’s in service actually carry missles on the battlefield?
In Afghanistan more than 90% of all UAV missions are simply Surveillance.
I suppose we could just ignore the civilian application and let China run with it.
After all China is quickly outpacing us in just about everything. (Space exploration anyone?)
If UAV surveillance can give the Police dept the edge by giving them real time data during a crisis i say go for it.
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Capt., “90 % simply surveillance” in Afghanistan isn’t a part of the war? Let’s see 10% of 6000 is 600 bombs. !0% of 60,000 is 6000 bombs. !0 % 0f 600,000 is 60,000 bombs. At some point the whole police force is militarized with robot UAVs. I think Krauthammer gets it & you don’t.
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