Please see my new article in Times of Israel, “Israel Must Fight Fire With Fire.”
When the Hamas terrorist’s from Gaza are trying to burn the State of Israel, Israel needs to make sure it’s the terrorists are the ones getting burnt. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
This is one incredible video.
It shows the killing power of micro killer drones.
With a host of cameras and other sensors including facial recognition and GPS, plus a small amount of explosives, these drones can target individuals or critical infrastructure and take them out!
The drones can work alone or in swarms to get into and kill or destroy anything.
No VIP (very important person) or CIP (critical infrastructure protected) is safe.
We can wipe out entire cities or the nuclear infrastructure of our enemies.
Despite the warning about artificial intelligence at the end of this video, rest assured these killer microdrones are coming.
Big is the new small, and small is the new big.
In fact, big things come in small packages–exactly!
Iran and North Korea are chasing obsolete technology to harm the U.S. and Israel, and within a short time, they will see the error of their malevolent ways
G-d foretells us all in the Bible and like David and Goliath–a slingshot to the forehead and the fight with the evil is over. 😉
(Thank you to Itzchak for sharing this video with me).
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for investigation of Israel for possible violations.
Hmmm, how does that make sense?
Israel abides by every ceasefire, sets up medical facilities for Gazans, provides advance warning of fighting to get innocents out of the way, and makes every attempt to withhold fire when civilians are at risk.
This while Hamas and Islamic Jihad use babies as human shields and indiscriminately target vast population centers and critical infrastructure in Israel.
Incredibly, the UN Relief and Works Agency facilities in Gaza (e.g. schools) were being used to hide missiles for use against Israel and upon discovery, the UNRWA returned these to terrorists to continue to harm civilians.
Unfortunately, in these cases, the UN is not protecting human rights, but rather is enabling the “rights” of dangerous terrorists to act grossly inhuman and immoral.
Where politics trumps right and wrong…evil is permitted to flourish and good is diminished in the world.
Only 13 years since the 9/11 attack by Islamic terrorists that killed almost 3,000 innocent civilians here…is the world again getting amnesia on the very dangerous threat it faces?
(Source Photo: here from The Yeshiva World)
Mashable is reporting that a team of university students from University of Texas at Austin were able to spoof the GPS receivers on an $80 million yacht with false signals and make it veer off course without anyone even noticing!
I remember a couple of years ago, I was heading to an offsite meeting for work.
It was planned for a location that I wasn’t extremely familiar with.
Of course, I turned on my GPS device in the car and set the destination.
It was a cold snowy day–the roads were iced–and it was already treacherous driving.
But I followed the GPS directions to a T.
I ended up in someone’s backyard–at a dead end–practically in the middle of a cornfield.
I’m thinking to myself Crap!–what type of crazy GPS is this?
Thank G-d, I had my smartphone in my pocket and I opened up the GPS app on it and set the destination again.
Sure enough, it takes me off and running to the meeting location–about 10 minutes away!
Some things I learnt:
1) OMG, we are so very dependent on our technology; with technology gone wrong, I was stuck in nowhere land USA; with it right–I got out of there and to the correct location and thank G-d.
2) GPS is a capability that is critical for everything from getting us to where we need to go to getting our missiles to hit on target. Take away or mess with our GPS and we end up missing the mark–potentially big time and with devastating consequences.
3) Always have a backup, plan B. One GPS can be wrong as in this case, while the other GPS was correct. Redundancy and contingency planning is a must have, period.
4) When you’re heading down the wrong road (or you’re off course in international waters), man up and admit it and make a course correction. You don’t win any brownie points for continuing to drive into the cornfields. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
The Talmud tells of how the wicked Roman Emperor Titus who destroyed Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in 70 AD was punished with a small insect that flew into his nose and gnawed at his brain for seven years.
By the time Titus died, they opened his skull and found the insect had grown to the size of a bird–the lesson was that Titus thought that he was so powerful with his legions, but G-d showed him that even a little insect sent by G-d could defeat him.
Now when I watch this amazing video from the Air Force about micro-drones, I see this story come to life all over again.
With Micro Air Vehicles, little drones the size of insects can carry out missions from surveillance to lethal targeting of enemy forces.
They can fly, hover, perch, power up, sneak up, sense, communicate, and attack.
With these micro-drones, especially in swarms, these small packages of sensors and weapons can bring a big wallop for our warfighters.
And like with Emperor Titus, you would not want these buzzing around and giving you big headaches–because these little buggers will be able to take down the mightiest of foes. 😉
“The Guardian of Israel neither slumbers or sleeps.” (Psalms 121:4)
Much is being celebrated about Israel’s new Iron Dome missile defense system with approximately 90% success rate for shooting down incoming missiles threatening populated areas and critical infrastructure.
However, Foreign Policy Magazine (20 November 2012) is touting another amazing advance by Israel, this time in robotic weapons systems.
It is called The Guardian Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), and it is made by G-NIUS.
It’s a fully armored vehicle with 660 pounds of electronic sensors and weapons.
The Guardian can autonomously “run patrol of predetermined routes” or it can be controlled via remote or mobile command center.
– It can run at 50 miles per hour, has powerful off-road capability, and an robust obstacle detection and avoidance system.
– Guardian can carry 1.2 tons of ammunition and supplies.
– The robotic vehicle is outfitted with all-weather video and thermal cameras, microphones, loudspeakers, and electronic countermeasures.
– It alerts to suspicious activity, identifies sources of fire, and by human operator can open fire with “auto-taret acquisition”.
This versatile weaponized robot can be used for force protection or to guard strategic assets, it can be used for perimeter, border or convey security, and for combat or logistical support missions.
It is easy to see how UGVs like this, especially in concert with UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) can take on the enemy and help keep the troops out of harm’s way.
For the future of UGVs and UAVs, think of a swarm, with masses of robots managing the battlefield both with and without human operators, and the vision of Star Wars on the ground and in space is just generations of robots away.
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