{"id":56202,"date":"2012-09-12T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=56202"},"modified":"2012-09-15T07:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T07:31:29","slug":"u-s-army-seeks-bids-to-build-backpack-sized-%e2%80%98kamikaze-drones-to-fly-in-and-kill-insurgents-from-six-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=56202","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army seeks bids to build backpack sized \u2018kamikaze’ drones to fly in and kill insurgents from six miles away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Wrenn \u2013 Daily Mail September 11, 2012<\/h1>\n

The U.S. military is seeking contractors to build it miniature ‘suicide drones’ that can be flown into targets up to six miles away.<\/span><\/p>\n

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TIGER - Tactical Grenade Enhanced Range - is the MBDA's candidate for the Army's Lethal Miniture Aerial Munition Sytem. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The little planes, which could look like the remote-controlled aircraft used in a more domestic setting, could be used for kamikaze-style attacks on vehicles or buildings – even individuals if necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Army wants the weapons, known as the ‘Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System’ (LMAMS) into war by 2016, and describe the weapon as a ‘portable, covert weapon with strike capability against stationary or moving individuals, with a very low risk of collateral damage’.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ‘plane’ will consist of a drone, warhead and launching device with a maximum weight of less than five pounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

The aim is to fit the entire plane in a backpack, and be able to fly it two minutes after a target is agreed on. At that point, the plane must be able to fly for 15 to 30 minutes across up to six miles of territory.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Wired, size is not the main issue, as long as the craft is light enough for easy transport by foot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once deployed, the craft could be controlled by a human, or by GPS.<\/span><\/p>\n

The proposal document says that: ‘Once a target is selected by the operator in the terminal phase of an engagement no further operator input shall be required’.<\/span><\/p>\n

One last requirements shows the need to reduce collateral damage: with the army stating the drone must have an ‘extremely low probability’ of killing someone 10 meters from the bomb’s impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drones have so far been used in countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wired points out that the Army already has researchers looking at three different ways of miniaturising drones.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first is to build tiny explosives, which can fit on already existing miniature spy drones.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second is to take existing drones and scale down the technology, as happens in other industries such as the computing world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lastly, the army is looking at ‘mashing-up’ existing drone and missile technology, creating a hybrid which is effectively a guided missile.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

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TIGER - Tactical Grenade Enhanced Range - is the MBDA's candidate for the Army's Lethal Miniture Aerial Munition Sytem. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. plans to develop a new generation of ‘killer drone’ now underway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Fringe_Science_New_Discoveries_and_Developments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56202"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56410,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56202\/revisions\/56410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}