Comments on: Kamikaze drone loiters above, waits for target

New drone from Israel is designed to crash into its target, then destroy itself with 50 pounds of on-board explosives.

[Michichael]

Oooh. I'll take 500.

[Jack K1]

Dumb - and not just the typos and bad grammar.

1) too slow during attack phase - can be shot down by ground fire as it approaches its target
2) no battlefield damage assessment without a 2nd craft in the air
3) a UAV with a couple of hellfire missiles does all this without these critical problems

[kingtrae79]

and everyone knows that that's what the world needs, another way for cowards to kill from afar. what's the difference between this and a suicide bomber? both use robots, and at the end of the day, both puppeteers get to go home to their families and act like nothing happened that day. the only difference is that one is a highly funded solution, and one isn't funded quite so well so it uses more of a religious slant to achieve it's goal-- after all salvation is free and if life on earth sucks because other children of God look at and treat you like less than a child of god, why not try for an express ticket to the afterlife? At least that seems to be how it's sold to the poor and desperate who many times are indoctrinated into extremist views. It's a sick twist of irony how alike the two sides are, you know, us and them? the rhetoric from both sides is the same - relying on blind faith in leadership, ignorance, and misinformation to keep the whole bloody song and dance going

[Michichael]

I don't know, suicide bombers seem to have some good funding... think of all the virgins they need to provide. And the cost of running the suicide hotline? :P

[Justin_McCloudPhoto]

Very interesting article. These could be very dangerous in the wrong hands.

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