Dang. This is WAY better than the 'Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring' ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/04/anubis_switchblade_phase_iii/

US 'Anubis' stealth assassin robo-missile nearly ready

Manhunting suitcase kamikaze to put snipers out of work

By Lewis Page | Posted in Physics, 4th March 2010 16:29 GMT

The US military is continuing work on a portable, robotic drone/missile which could be used to kill individual human beings from afar. The weapon, codenamed "Anubis", has now moved into the final stages of development.

The latest news comes in a federal budget announcement that California hi-tech firm Aerovironment, well-known as a specialist in very small UAVs, has received a $1.18m contract for "Anubis Phase III". Phase III is the penultimate or final stage in most US military tech projects, indicating that Anubis is close to maturity.

According to other US government budget documents unearthed by the Ares blog, Anubis is a "Tactical MAV [Micro Air Vehicle] for Time-Sensitive Fleeting Targets" and add that it "is to address the need for a micro air vehicle that can engage high-value maneuvering targets". The deadly little machine is also described as a "non-line-of-sight munition with man-in-the loop target ID with very low collateral damage".

Aerovironment has also been working on a project it calls "Switchblade" since at least 2007, which is to deliver a portable, tube-launched "loitering munition" of the sort now becoming trendy in some nations' artillery units. The Switchblade, having been shot out of its disposable launch tube, pops out its wings and flies about on silent electric propulsion for as long as 15 minutes, scanning the terrain below with an electro-optical system.

As soon as its target is found, the silent Switchblade plunges out of the sky like a small robotic kamikaze, detonating its small warhead on impact to take out things as small as an individual human.

Just what we need, more ways to kill people. This country is off its rocker.

Oh. You mean there's no one out there who wants to kill US ... ? Hmm. Our bad ...

Can ya blame em? Look at the devistation we have caused all over the world. Imagine if russia or China had done what this country has done. No we americans cant be inovters for a better car or polution free energy we waste our tallents on finding better ways to kill people.

If you hate this country so much then why don't you leave? Its THAT simple! Go hang out with the ones that want US wiped off the map. Guaranteed you'd be running back with your tail between your legs.

It's always 'Blame America First' with you people, isn't it ... ? Exercise your option to leave if you don't like it here. We won't miss you.

Just because some oppose war and violence does NOT mean that they "hate" their country...supporting war is not a sign of patriotism, that is a misconception.

I would leave but I have a script submited to MSNBC. I want to do a tv program titled "Are You Smarter Than a Half-Term Govenor.

sweety,, the WORLD Is off its rocker, people all over are blind to the destruction of war and the value of life,,,,not just americans

It is the separation of large groups of people that cause war on this planet. Humans believe they are separate from one another. Who are we all bombing, ourselves? Yes.

I look at it as a deterant to people wanting to cause harm to the USA.
Plus if it will only kill the individual there will be far less innocent lives taken in war. I would think that would make some of you happy.

I know I just cant understand why we just cant INVADE a country and be greeted as liberators. Those ungreatfull people!

Y' mean like the Japanese did to Manchuria? Or Nanking? Or Singapore? Or the Philippines? Or do you mean the way the NORTH Koreans invaded the SOUTH Koreans in 1950? Maybe you prefer more recent history - let's say something along the lines of Onkel Vlad sending Russian troops into Ossetia to 'teach 'em who's boss' ... Pick one - any one - or supply your own. Oh. Wait - I know. You mean US ... the United States. Don't you? Right. Thought so ... everybody else gets a pass ... blame America first, last, and always. You're so transparent ...

Just like you give umerika a free pass?

" ... Just like you give umerika a free pass? ... "

You're damned right I give America a free pass before I start rooting for the people who want us dead with our throats cut. I'm really glad you responded the way you did, because now there's no question about your loyalty - it AIN'T with THIS country ... you can go now. You'll obviously be more comfortable living with the enemy rather than merely siding with it ...

dam did someone leave a cage open . get the chickens back in there cage s . we are not all related never were never well be .

I dont side with the enemy but I nevr felt Iraq was an enemy in the first place. Oh FYI they never were according to our own government no one from Iraq was behind 911. Of the nineteen hijackers who attacked this nation on September 11, 2001, fifteen were Saudi Arabian. Moreover, each and every one of the nineteen hijackers was personally chosen and provided with training and financing by yet another Saudi native – Osama bin Laden. At Least that is the "official vrsion of events.

I use your words and now you retract 'em ... convenient, ain't it? Sorry, but you're already on record.

As for Irag never being the 'enemy' in the first place ... they were being used to TRAIN the people who want to kill us. Seriously, if you can't extrapolate from that connection, well ... I will agree that no Iraqis were active participants on the flights that occurred on 9/11. The rest of the 'point' you make is baseless because you deliberately overlook the Bin Laden / Hussein connection. Where do you think bin Laden had his surgery? Iraq. It may have been a 'marriage of convenience' for him and Hussein, but the link still existed. Saddam was an active, if secret, participant in AQ's operations by providing resources for them to use. How problematic is it for you to understand that, if bin Laden had been denied access to countries he could use to train his people, he would have been actively deterred from conducting his operations against us (and others)? It really isn't that much a leap, but when you root for the other side, you're not going to admit obvious truths.

Now your just makeing things up you have a great night I would suggest you get some facts