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

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UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are being developed to utilize armor-piercing explosives, specifically Multiple Explosively Formed Penetrators (MEFP), for precision strikes. These drones can switch between bunker-buster and infantry-annihilator modes based on human operator input or an autonomous target classification routine. This capability enhances the effectiveness of UAVs in military operations by allowing for tailored strike patterns against various targets.

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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."

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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.


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