Drones and killer robots, part two and don't forget the germs

 a follow up of a previous blog post.about drone warfare.

a nice raptor could stop an ordinary drone.

But how do you stop a swarm of killer drones? (Aug 2021)

ub, maybe by using an EMP, electromagnetic pulse to mess up their electronics?

podcast at mindmatters discusses this....transcript...

The worry about EMP (electromagnetic pulse) being used in warfare is not a new idea: I first read about it in pre internet days back in the 1980s, when it was posited that a single nuke over Omaha could wipe out the entire defense network communications system. Since then, the military has "hardened" those computers etc. but still, it is a worry, especially at a time when an increase in the sunspot cycle could result in another Carrington event.

but it's not just killer drones: Imagine killer robots.

Hmm...

all of this is, of course, high tech. And I haven't even started investigating articles on microwave weapons...

Such articles not only inform you of what they are proposing to make, but a way to scare you to be willing to fund them with oodles of money to do so. (since I am not a believer in "peace in our time", this is an observation, not a criticism).

but of course, there are a lot of articles out there warning if then Ukraine with the help of the US/NATO etc. push Putin too far, he might use nukes.

But of course, why use a nuke that has a fingerprint that can be traced back to him, when he can just follow the tried and true tactic of sending smallpox infected blankets to the Indians?

Last time I checked, Russia still has smallpox and other lethal pathogens in their labs. And the advantage of biowarfare is that they can always blame it on the US Biolabs in the Ukraine.

again, I am just pointing these things out: Because, as the UKGuardian in a March 2022 article notes: 

Most of the work of the Ukraine labs today, Gronvall said, involves surveillance of diseases in animals and people as an early-warning system for illnesses such as African swine fever, which is endemic in the region.

yes. one does need such labs. For example, when some local pigs got sick of presumed blue eardisease, the DOAgriculture found a US biolab to investigate it, and they figured out some pigs had Ebola Reston, and even gave mild cases of it to their handlers.

But lab leaks, especially in times of war (or disasters such as earthquakes or floods) are a danger.

so the WHO told the Ukraine to destroy all of their pathogens just in case.

because lab leaks do occur: no, I am not discussing covid, but the Brucellosis that leaked from a Chinese lab back in 2019 and infected 10 thousand locals.

and indeed, the UKGuardian article notes:

(WH press secretary Psaki) warned that Moscow’s claim of a secret biological weapons programme in Ukraine could in fact be laying the foundations for a Russian chemical or biological weapons assault.

 Sigh.