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

[Aether]

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 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...

 

[Kurdt]

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.

 

[franznietzsche]

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.