Aether
Sep8-06, 04:10 PM
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Once they catch up to the baddies, the drones will use a series of armor-piercing explosives, shooting jets of molten metal, to eliminate their targets. And these MEFP (http://www.stormingmedia.us/79/7982/A798234.html) [Multiple Explosively Formed Penetrator] "warheads will be controllable so as to provide a single large fragment (bunker-buster) or tailorable pattern of smaller fragments (unprotected infantry or light utility vehicles)." The decision of whether to go bunker-buster or infantry-annihilator mode can either be determined by the drones' human operators, "or autonomous target classification routine built into the UAV."
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http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002723.html
Once they catch up to the baddies, the drones will use a series of armor-piercing explosives, shooting jets of molten metal, to eliminate their targets. And these MEFP (http://www.stormingmedia.us/79/7982/A798234.html) [Multiple Explosively Formed Penetrator] "warheads will be controllable so as to provide a single large fragment (bunker-buster) or tailorable pattern of smaller fragments (unprotected infantry or light utility vehicles)." The decision of whether to go bunker-buster or infantry-annihilator mode can either be determined by the drones' human operators, "or autonomous target classification routine built into the UAV."
...and while we're on the subject, I'll just mention that someone recently bought (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2090182&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312) Oddjob's hat for $33,600...