Comments on: Israeli Drone Attacks Own Troops

By: luiggii

luiggii — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:40:35 +0000

Israelis have a logistical reason to defend themselves and have done so since resolution was passed by the United Nations.

By: Azrael

Azrael — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:14:29 +0000

Anti-semitic drone? I guess the israleis couldn’t even design a robot that would like them, so very sad . :)
On a more serious note, the idf doesn’t deploy cuavs with autonomous attack routines; there was some trailer jockey behind the joystick of that donut. After he/she started their attack run on the idf dismounts, his superior probably recognized the aerial cue marker of friendlies, in the u.s. military that would be the thermal marker in the no-starchers, i don’t what that would be in the idf but i wouldn’t be surprised if it was something similar. After the superior officer recognized what was happening he probably put down his ice-coffee walked over and smacked the ranking upside his head and smattered off some curses in heb-talk; blue on blue averted.

By: Jaye

Jaye — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:24:38 +0000

Ouch, friendly fire burns all. How sad, no collateral damage AKA no dead innocent women and children!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:31:33 +0000

Too bad people don’t spend the same amount of attention on human error as autonomous errors.

By: Edward Liu

Edward Liu — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:14:38 +0000

Was there any indication on why the drone started shooting at Israeli troops? It seems to me that friendly fire is a non-zero risk that’s present in any close-air support mission, but unless there’s some drone-specific factor involved, then I wouldn’t chalk this up to anything much more than human error. If this was the first test flight of a drone that will identify and destroy targets autonomously, or the drone operator got too disoriented due to the remote piloting of the vehicle, then I’d be concerned for what it means for drones in particular. The mistake campbell mentions could happen with a manned bomber as well, for instance.

By: DS

DS — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:40:29 +0000

OOPS!

By: campbell

campbell — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:07:35 +0000

sounds fun. so, howz this: our own longer range, loiter capable, UNMANNED, nuke hauling future bomber that is being hyped.…..making just one small mistake and taking out a civilian population instead of its supposed military target, neh?
to, to funny