The Royal Norwegian Navy made use of the decommissioned KNM Trondheim, a 300ft long frigate, as target practice for a new “Naval Strike Missile”, a four metre long 400kg long-range stealth missile.
Military robots have been used in war in some primitive form since the beginning of the 20th century. Only recently they have moved from a marginal role to the centre stage of contemporary military and intelligence operations.
A “yes” vote in 2014 would likely lead to uncertainty caused by a range of policy conundrums not only for Scotland but for the rest of the UK, with national security of particular concern
The EU is providing generous R&D (research and development) subsidies to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the state-owned manufacturer of Israeli ‘drones’ and other ‘battlefield solutions’. Some of the grants are for IAI to adapt its killer robots for use within the EU.
How useful is data mining software such as defence contractor Raytheon’s RIOT in predicting future crimes or acts of terrorism by analysing huge datasets from social media service such as Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare?