Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's Kamikaze!

Even Amazon Delivery Drones could be re-purposed to drop grenades from an altitude high enough to be inaudible & hard to see.

There were several examples of near-future dystopian sci-fi use of killer drones on Black Mirror...
1 was a small flying kamikaze drone that had facial recognition and a shape charge just big enough to penetrate the targets skull.
Other was Boston-Dynamics-style "dog" robot that had a gun embedded into it's front "paw" and was programmed to kill all humans. Both terrifying and hopefully never deployed IRL.

I guess it would show weakness to express any emotion at all. Pussies. Probably a Kamikaze heritage thing.

Just watched this again recently. I don't know why it tanked at the box office.

Although the director had this to say about it: About the film's failure and critical response, John McTiernan said: "Initially, it was a wonderful Cinderella story with a nine-year-old boy. We had a pretty good script by Bill Goldman, charming. And this ludicrous hype machine got hold of it, and it got buried under bullshit. It was so overwhelmed with baggage. And then it was whipped out unedited, practically assembled right out of the camera. It was in the theater five or six weeks after I finished shooting. It was kamikaze, stupid, no good reason for it. And then to open the week after Jurassic Park--God! To get to the depth of bad judgment involved in that you'd need a snorkel."

If a drone's AI is sophisticated enough to find a human face, I think they could program it to detect a wall outlet and recharge itself if the battery is running too low...
But mostly the design is for being dropped and fly a short distance to target and releasing projectile. Kamikaze Bee.
this does have a Black Mirror vibe- very well done.

There was a point when aerial drones were only used for surveillance, because of ethical concerns about arming them. We crossed that line (16 years ago today), but kill-orders still have to come from a human, and that's the line that the A.I. professor (end of video) hopes we never cross.
I'll give it 10 years.

Damn you, title, no kamikazes...

Uh... WTF? Have you seriously never heard of the Dresden and Hamburg firebombings? In the Hamburg case the U.S. actually set up a fake German village as a test run just to see how many houses they could burn down. The fact that entire mock village was destroyed was seen as a massive success, not a reason to go back and figure out a more humane way to do it.

As far as Japan goes, even today a large part of Japan's economy depends upon small to mid-sized businesses that often double as people's homes. The government didn't "place" them there, these were people's day-jobs. Just like in the U.S., factories that once produced consumer goods were forced to make military materials to support the war effort.

The U.S. used firebombs for two reasons: first, firebombing meant precision bombing wasn't needed so the planes could fly at a high altitude out of shot of anti-aircraft fire and second, they knew damn well they'd be roasting Japanese people alive. Nobody cared. The war had gone on for so long that the U.S. was willing to do anything to end it quickly, particularly when they saw Russian swooping in to consolidate Eastern Europe. After Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, the bitter island fighting in the Pacific, the kamikaze attacks, and the stories of escaped or freed POWs, it's pretty safe to say the American military wasn't looking at the Japanese people as humans anymore, just enemies to be defeated by any means necessary--including nuclear weapons.

I saw no kamikaze.

if you watch the training our special forces receive, one has to wonder what recourse besides a suicide bomb is actually plausible to fight such forces.

We have super soldiers with super soldier capabilities and equipment, and so the threat has evolved to match a completely superior combat opponent.

i.e., IEDs and kamikaze attack.

evolution in action, indeed. you can't fight a war on terror.

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Wow, that's just... that's just retarded. >> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^MarineGunrock:
I don't get it - this is the exact same video. How is this NOT a a dupeof=http://catsanddogs.videosift.com/video/kamikaze-jump ?
Because we all had a big debate and vote on it months ago and the collective decided that only an exact copy is a dupe.
I do not support this, but it is the rule for now.

>> ^MarineGunrock:

I don't get it - this is the exact same video. How is this NOT a a dupeof=http://catsanddogs.videosift.com/video/kamikaze-jump ?

Because we all had a big debate and vote on it months ago and the collective decided that only an exact copy is a dupe.

I do not support this, but it is the rule for now.

This one is twice as long and has a slow mo bit.>> ^MarineGunrock:

I don't get it - this is the exact same video. How is this NOT a a dupeof=http://catsanddogs.videosift.com/video/kamikaze-jump ?>> ^mintbbb:
This probably isn't quite a dupe, since it has the slow motion part. The original video is
http://catsanddogs.videosift.com/video/kamikaze-jump
Poor kitty

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