{"id":77228,"date":"2018-03-28T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/watch-military-swarm-drones-lock-on-and-surround-a-target"},"modified":"2018-03-28T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:02:38","slug":"watch-military-swarm-drones-lock-on-and-surround-a-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/watch-military-swarm-drones-lock-on-and-surround-a-target","title":{"rendered":"Watch military swarm drones lock on and surround a target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3XKiUtruQiY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Autonomous weapon bans (<a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/11\/15\/stratoenergetics-introduces-ne.html\">previously<\/a>) are currently being debated, but in the meantime, the US Department of Defense continues work with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3XKiUtruQiY\">Perdix Micro-Drone project<\/a>. Ostensibly for surveillance, it\u2019s clear these could easily be modded with lethal weaponry.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>F\/A-18 Super Hornets deploy the drones, which can then perform a series of tactical maneuvers based on post-launch commands.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/03\/28\/watch-military-swarm-drones-lo.html\">https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/03\/28\/watch-military-swarm-drones-lo.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autonomous weapon bans (previously) are currently being debated, but in the meantime, the US Department of Defense continues work with its Perdix Micro-Drone project. Ostensibly for surveillance, it\u2019s clear these could easily be modded with lethal weaponry. F\/A-18 Super Hornets deploy the drones, which can then perform a series of tactical maneuvers based on post-launch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}