Comments on: Can We Meet the Robot’s Threat? http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/can-we-meet-the-robots-threat/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:14:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mr.Man http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/can-we-meet-the-robots-threat/#comment-1048886 Mr.Man Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:00:24 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/can-we-meet-the-robots-threat/#comment-1048886 I'm a robot and I'm getting a kick out of these replies. I’m a robot and I’m getting a kick out of these replies.

]]> By: Something From The History | Soaring Space http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/can-we-meet-the-robots-threat/#comment-1048000 Something From The History | Soaring Space Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:36:25 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/can-we-meet-the-robots-threat/#comment-1048000 [...] This post is actually a article from popular science 1944 and the German’s attempts to operate bombs by gyro or radio. Some time before Germany’s introduction of the gyro-controlled flying torpedo, the Nazis demonstrated another way of guiding crew-less missiles with their radio-controlled glider bombs. Intended for attacking vessels at sea, the glider was steered by a radio transmitter in a distant powered plane, until, if all went well, it crashed upon the deck of the enemy ship. When it repeatedly failed to do so, the experiment apparently was abandoned, for nothing more was heard of the weapon. [...] [...] This post is actually a article from popular science 1944 and the German’s attempts to operate bombs by gyro or radio. Some time before Germany’s introduction of the gyro-controlled flying torpedo, the Nazis demonstrated another way of guiding crew-less missiles with their radio-controlled glider bombs. Intended for attacking vessels at sea, the glider was steered by a radio transmitter in a distant powered plane, until, if all went well, it crashed upon the deck of the enemy ship. When it repeatedly failed to do so, the experiment apparently was abandoned, for nothing more was heard of the weapon. [...]

]]> By: Emcha http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/can-we-meet-the-robots-threat/#comment-174410 Emcha Wed, 16 May 2007 15:22:31 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/can-we-meet-the-robots-threat/#comment-174410 Interesting how the effectivesness of german guided bombs is downplayed. Obviously the real information came out only after the war. Interesting how the effectivesness of german guided bombs is downplayed. Obviously the real information came out only after the war.

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/can-we-meet-the-robots-threat/#comment-171384 Stannous Tue, 15 May 2007 06:29:23 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/14/can-we-meet-the-robots-threat/#comment-171384 With the 20-20 advantage of hindsight this is fascinating as much for what it does not say as for what it does- The month this was published the German V-2 started spreading it's own destruction on England, Belgium, and France. (and by the way, the V-1 and V-2 were intentionally misguided by British intelligence who, posing as Nazi spies, reported the bombs falling short so that their range was increased and many landed harmlessly (or at least with _less_ harm) in the farmland north of London) It also mentions the Allied pilots' hesitance to bomb civilain targets- that would change all too soon: 6 months later, in Feb. 1945, on one side of the earth Dresden was devastated with a mix of HE and incendiary bombs killing between 40,000 and 60,000 and on the other Kobe and Tokyo were firebombed killing thousands of civilians (72, 489 in Tokyo). And 6 months after that, Nagasaki (74,000) and Hiroshima (140,000) were bombed. With the 20-20 advantage of hindsight this is fascinating as much for what it does not say as for what it does-
The month this was published the German V-2 started spreading it’s own destruction on England, Belgium, and France. (and by the way, the V-1 and V-2 were intentionally misguided by British intelligence who, posing as Nazi spies, reported the bombs falling short so that their range was increased and many landed harmlessly (or at least with _less_ harm) in the farmland north of London)
It also mentions the Allied pilots’ hesitance to bomb civilain targets- that would change all too soon:
6 months later, in Feb. 1945, on one side of the earth Dresden was devastated with a mix of HE and incendiary bombs killing between 40,000 and 60,000 and on the other Kobe and Tokyo were firebombed killing thousands of civilians (72, 489 in Tokyo).
And 6 months after that, Nagasaki (74,000) and Hiroshima (140,000) were bombed.

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