I SAID THIS IN 1987, PROFESSORS ARGUED WITH ME. I’m like, “look, a grenade weigh

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/the-pentagon-takes-aim-at-bomb-carrying-consumer-dronesWHEN I SAID THIS IN 1987, PROFESSORS ARGUED WITH ME.

I’m like, “look, a grenade weighs 14oz, and a block of C4 weights a bit more. If the machine is basically built to turn into shrapnel,especially if at close (50yd) range they have a solid rocket booster (+3oz), then, I mean, they have a terminal (killing) radius of about 15 feet or so, and they cost nothing, and a swarm of them is terrifying. Most amateur quad drones today lift twice that in payload.

Now you’ve probably seen the little bot that ‘hops’. Same thing. Biggest complaint I read (and hear) from field people is that all bots are too loud still. Light, quiet and made for shrapnel. We make these things out of plastic to make them cheap, but some alloys are almost better.

Sure suppressing fire, night operations, etc, men are better. But I mean crappy night vision on one of these things and you’re sitting half a mile away playing video games: lining up drones: boom a blocked window, boom inside the room, boom in the hallway, boom in the next room. I mean, guys come running out and you chase and boom.

I like the little hopping bots, assuming that even if you shoot them they go off, so you’re actually afraid to destroy them anywhere near to you.

I was so passionate about making smart tanks until I realized that I was looking at the wrong scale. What we want is zika-mosquitos, lots of explosive grasshoppers and butterflies, rats (Hoppers), and birds (drones).

I can fantasize can’t I?