Helen Stewart: Drug Cartels Hack Border Patrol Drones
US Border Patrol Drones Hacked by Drug Cartels The drug cartels are hacking US Border Patrol drones in order to cross the US-Mexican border illegally.
US Border Patrol Drones Hacked by Drug Cartels The drug cartels are hacking US Border Patrol drones in order to cross the US-Mexican border illegally.
Air Force hires civilian drone pilots for combat patrols; critics question legality For the first time, civilian pilots and crews now operate what the Air Force calls “combat air patrols,” daily round-the-clock flights above areas of military operations to provide video and collect other sensitive intelligence.
In the last week, much has been made of the leaked DoD briefing entitled ISR Support to Small Footprint (CT) Operations – Somalia and Yemen, dated February 2013. To date, all the reports I have read, save one, focus on the “critical shortfalls” of drone warfare revealed in these slides — see, for example The Intercept, which broke …
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Used to perpetuate mono-culture this technology could produce disaster. But used as described it could do great good in restoring the Amazon rain forest, for instance. It would make the task doable. Ex-NASA Engineer to Plant One Billion Trees a Year Using Drones The company’s CEO, who might be called ‘Johnny Apple Drone’, thinks it should …
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Good this is — armed, they might be. Flying a drone can be an act of civil disobedience It was political protest, but also a confrontation between two technologies, one old and one new.
The New Equalizer – A Genuine Game Changer: Kamikaze Assassination Micro Drones The revolver was the great equalizer of the 19th and 20th centuries between individuals unequal in power or size, and perhaps, in the light of John Robb’s writings, guns of various kinds have been a great equalizer between guerilla fighters and much larger …
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Who would have thought it … drones that actually can save lives. Made in … Iran. From www.youtube.com – May 17, 5:52 PM We’ve seen how drones can be a crucial asset to search and rescue operations, but Iran’s RTS Lab has taken an entirely new angle. RTS’s Pars drone carries a payload of life …
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