How can UAVs be used for precision strikes and target classification?

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Drones are being developed with advanced capabilities to engage targets using armor-piercing explosives that can shoot jets of molten metal. These drones will be equipped with Multiple Explosively Formed Penetrator warheads that can be configured for different attack modes, such as a single large fragment for bunker-busting or a pattern of smaller fragments for targeting unprotected infantry and light vehicles. The mode of attack can be selected by human operators or determined autonomously through built-in target classification systems. The discussion also touches on the contrast between the ease of designing weapons compared to the complexity of addressing societal issues like disease, poverty, and hunger, suggesting a societal focus on weaponry over humanitarian advancements.
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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 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 http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2090182&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312" Oddjob's hat for $33,600...
 
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If people were as hell bent on coming up with novel ways to cure diseases, poverty and hunger then we'd be living in a utopia by now.
 
Kurdt said:
If people were as hell bent on coming up with novel ways to cure diseases, poverty and hunger then we'd be living in a utopia by now.


On the contrary, weapons are easy to design. People are not so easy to design.
 

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