Experts Warn of Robotic Terrorism

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Experts Warn of Robotic Terrorism
Associated Press | February 28, 2008

LONDON - Military experts have warned that terrorists could use unmanned drones in aerial attacks, saying robotics offered a frighteningly easy way to evade security.

The know-how and materials for manufacturing lethal, improvised robots are easily available, according to experts at a conference Wednesday on robotics at the Royal United Services Institute, a 177-year-old forum on military affairs.

"Sooner or later we're going to see a Cessna programmed to fly into a building," said Rear Adm. Chris Parry, who formed the Ministry of Defense's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Center in 2005. He said small, remotely piloted planes or even converted model aircraft were "ideal weapons" for terrorists because they are easy to build and could evade radar.

"They are cheap. They don't need as much motor power or fuel, and they're difficult to detect - about as difficult to detect as a blackbird," he said.

Parry's statements were echoed by other speakers, among them computer scientist Richard Starkey.


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