 To curtail needless casualties, the full robotization of war at the lowest level has already started. Not only are the ethical considerations frightening, the pace is astonishing. Everything from the dumbest land mine to the best smart missile has already improved ten fold over the last 20 years. Armies are ready to field the first remote controlled land warbots – soon to be fully automated after the unheralded success of US Air Force systems like Global Hawk, Predator and other intelligence gathering unmanned, remote controlled vehicles. A Predator even managed to kill an alleged group of terrorists traveling in a moving car using powerful Hellfire antitank missiles – albeit by remote control hence not truly autonomous.
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Control Chief, together with Rockwell Automation, has developed a wireless communication solution for the Allen-Bradley SLC 500. Our Communicator® is a fully integrated wireless communication module that is designed for the SLC 500 series platform that communicates directly through the BACKPLANE of the PLC. This “virtual wire” connection provides RF channel data rates up to 250 Kbaud with 2.4 GHz Spread Spectrum frequency hopping radio..jpg)
It’s a long time I’ve not posted anything in this category. Afriend reminded, and I decide to post a higher quality serie; both in photos and the gilr ;)