NASA pdf "Future Strategic Issues-Future Warfare"

[Amanda]

Okay, this is basically a slide show/power-point type of document, so it requires a bit of guess work and interpretation, but I still think it's worth going through b/c it kind of gives you some insight into what the mad scientists are up to.  And if the link goes dead (it has in the past), just do a search for the title "Future Strategic Issues-Future Warfare" and it should turn up elsewhere.

This document was created by Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center  (it's apparently comparable to a document called "Nonlethal Weapons" published by the Institute for National Securities Studies, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado--I'm still looking for this one)

Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare (Circa 2025)

http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2001testing/bushnell.pdf


Here are some of the highlights:

pg 41- something about "Some Sensor Swarms," which include "Smart Dust" (floats in air currents), "Nano-Tags" (I think this is about RFIDs), and "Co-Opted Insects" (great, so now we have to be suspicious of the freaking bugs!!)

pg 42 - something about " Explosive Dust Opportunities"...hmmm

pg 43 - something about "Microdust Weaponry"  that is inhaled into the lungs, "Dust mechanically bores into lung tissue and executes various 'pathological missions'"...Chemtrails??? ...Apparently, there's nothing to worry about b/c this "new class of weaponry is LEGAL"

pg 50- talks about "Effects of Low Power Microwaves," which include behavioral performance decrements, seizures, alterations in brain function, and lethality

pg 52- talks about "BW Possibilties" (BW=biowarfare?), apparently this allows you to carry out a "long term fingerprintless campaign" (kind of like "silent weapons for quiet wars?"), includes things like airborne ebola, aflatoxin, genomically targeted pathogens, and "binary agents" (?) distributed via imported food, vitamins, clothing

pg 53- info on Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, which was weaponized back in the 50's and 60's, tested in humans in "Operation Whitecoat," not treatment available (I kind of feel like this was in the news a couple of years ago--like people or animals were suspiciously taken out with this)

pg 73- info on "Natural Warfare," including use of animals (e.g. rats, insects) as "delivery systems" (I'm assuming for toxins/pathogens)

pg 82- talks about "Unconventional Nuc Delivery" (nuc=nuclear?), something about "sinking a ship and detonating it to create tidalwaves with radioactive spume."  Another idea is to "Trojan Horse Everything," including ships, planes, cars, trucks, cargo, etc. with the "targeted effects" to include tidal waves, radiation, earthquakes, EMP  

pg 83- I don't really get this section, but it's called "Civilian IW Examples/CONUS" and talks about banking system computers and railroads. What caught my eye was something in the railroad section about the power grid getting taken down (there's been a lot of propaganda out there about how "solar flares" could take out the power grid and I've been wondering whether they were sort of laying the propaganda groundwork for something like this--James McCanney has been warning about this...I'll post more on this later)

pg 88- this section is called "Some Interesting Possibilties" (yeah, interesting if you're a freaking psychopath!!) and talks about "detonation of off-shore seabed methane hydrate deposits to produce tatical/strategic level tidal waves against littoral regions"


 

 

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[mgt23]

link not working

[Amanda]

Okay, try this:

http://fedgeno.com/documents/future-str ... arfare.pdf

[mgt23]

this falls in line with the 2020 vision of the war on china.

what concerns me is not the 12 year timeline try anytime now.................remember the tech lag.

what is missing is the spiritual cue. a trigger which creates the willpower to press the button.

they have already made the door. the question is who has the key and what will happen to it.

[Amanda]

pg 88- this section is called "Some Interesting Possibilties" (yeah, interesting if you're a freaking psychopath!!) and talks about "detonation of off-shore seabed methane hydrate deposits to produce tatical/strategic level tidal waves against littoral regions"

For what it's worth, the above section kind of reminded me of the stuff that was getting talked about at around the time of the BP Gulf Oil Disaster.  There was lots of talk about a methane bubble exploding.  I didn't really think much about it b/c it was being pushed by people like Hoagland (pretty sure he's the guy who still says we went to the moon). But, anyway, here's some info on the methane problem and how it could trigger a tsunami from when the Gulf Oil Spill was in the news:

How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event
http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doo ... ent?page=3

There hasn't been much in the news lately about the BP Gulf Oil Disaster or the whole methane bubble, but I thought I would post it just to show it's technically possible for this type of thing to occur.

[Amanda]

Here's some more info on future "non-lethal" weaponry. And I don't necessarily agree w/the author's conclusions in the last paragraph (about not getting fears up b/c some projects will be ruled as "too ambitious" or "too deadly")


Pentagon's Mad Scientists Develop 'Non-Lethal' Weapon That Could Blast You Unconscious

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/24807 ... nconscious (lots of links here)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Wired
Tue, 10 Jul 2012

Imagine a stun gun that doesn't just drop you to the floor, but renders you unconscious for several minutes. This tech is called a "nano-second electrical pulse," and the Pentagon believes it could be used in a gun that would hit targets with high voltages of electricity for an amazingly short amount of time - we're talking billionths of seconds here. That would make the enemy an easy capture. But today's stun guns are already linked to dozens, if not hundreds, of abusive incidents. What happens if they become even more powerful?

The stun gun is only one of several projects that the Department of Defense showcased at the Non-Lethal Weapons Industry Day in Quantico, Va. on June 22, an opportunity for the Pentagon to give a glimpse of the present and future of its weapons that are designed to injure, rather than kill.

The Joint Non Lethal Weapons Directorate, the Pentagon's agency responsible for these projects, has been working on these system for years, proposing all kinds of exotic and futuristic less-than-lethal alternatives to its deadly arsenal, including sticky foam guns, sonic cannons, and devices that could potentially create voices in the target's heads, mimicking the effects of schizophrenia.

As Defense News notes, the new pulse gun is a lightweight device supposed to be an improvement over the existing - and often limited - stun guns. The weapons' effects doesn't last that long, allowing the victim to recover as soon as the flow of electricity stops. The Pentagon now wants an improved device that could disable the enemy and render him unconscious for several minutes.

How dangerous a device like that could be is unclear. Stun guns have a long and well documented history of abuse - even students and grandmas have been victims of overzealous, Taser-happy police officers. And their use, despite being labeled "non-lethal," can be deadly. According to Amnesty International, at least 500 people have died after being shocked with tasers. In 2008, a jury in San Jose deemed the company that produces the stun gun, Taser International, responsible for the death of Robert Heston, a 40-year-old man who was shot by the cops multiple times. The jury found that the company failed to warn the police that repeated discharges could have a deadly effect on the target.

Just as most of the systems presented at the event, for now, this one is just a "conceptual" - i.e. very far from real - weapon and the Pentagon needs to focus on finding out exactly how to deliver such a short and powerful electric discharge without causing permanent damage. If the Pentagon ever wants this device to see the light of day, it will have to strike the right balance between disabling power and potential damage.

Another option: use lasers instead. Laser beams can make an enemy blind or make him feel an unbearable heat. The first effect could be achieved with a new, more powerful type of "dazzling laser" that is supposed to work from more than 500 metres (0.3 miles) away. This type of technology has already been proposed by companies with the aim of blinding pirates. The second with the so called Non-Lethal Thermal Laser, a beam that when pointed produces a heating sensation that forces the target to move away. Its effect is similar to the one achieved by existing technology, called the Active Denial System, that uses radio microwaves.

Apart from disarming and subduing humans, the Pentagon is also focusing on a wide array of systems to subdue boats or other vehicles without having to resort to undesirable tactics such as bombing or destroying them. These devices, which would use radio frequency, high powered microwaves or high-voltage waveforms would disrupt or damage the target's engine controls, potentially shutting them off. These immobilizing rays could even be delivered from the air by a drone.

It's hard to tell how likely we are to ever see any of these sci-fi-sounding projects come to life, mostly because making a weapon really non-lethal is a fine art that's really difficult to master. The nanosecond laser pulse, for example, risks causing deadly effects on human cells (so much that the technology has been proposed as an alternative treatment to cancer). For them to ever be real, the Pentagon will have to make these highly criticized weapons effectively non-deadly.

Also, most of this projects depend on untested science and technology, which might be unavailable for years. Which is why sometimes these projects suffer an early death. For example, one of the systems mentioned in a presentation, the "Solid State High Power Microwave Source," was terminated "due to material science immaturity."

In short, don't get your hopes - or fears - too high. Some of these projects will end up being labeled either "too ambitious," or "too deadly"...and they'll never go from a cool presentation to reality.

[Amanda]

MAPLE SEED DRONES WILL SWARM THE FUTURE

http://republicbroadcasting.org/index.p ... cleID=3889


Posted On: July 6th, 2012

Source: http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com



Imagine a cheap, tiny, hovering aerial drone capable of being launched with the flick of a person's wrist and able to provide manipulable 360-degree surveillance views.

It's real, it's inspired by maple seeds, and the company behind it, Lockheed Martin, envisions a future in which swarms of the new drones can be deployed at a fraction of the cost and with greater capabilities than drones being used today by the military and other agencies.

"Think about dropping a thousand of these out of an aircraft," said Bill Borgia, head of Lockheed Martin's Intelligent Robotics Lab, in a phone interview with TPM, "Think about the wide area over which one collect imagery. Instead of sending one or two expensive, highly valuable aircraft like we do today, you could send thousands of these inexpensive aircraft, and they are almost expendable."

The new drone which looks like very similar to a maple seed, with a small pod-like body attached a single whirring blade, is called the Samarai. The name is derived from the Latin word "samara," which means a winged seed, just like the one that inspired its physical design, flight pattern and construction.

In June, Lockheed Martin released a video demo of the drone's capabilities, and it is clearly impressive, launched by hand and piloted using a tablet computer, which also displays the drone's live surveillance feed.

"You can literally pull this out of your pocket, throw it into the air, and it can start flying," Borgia told TPM. "It can take off and land vertically indoors."

Borgia said that the drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), was designed to be deployed in confined settings, such as urban environments or even inside buildings, where it could be piloted into different rooms and hover outside of windows, collecting surveillance footage with ease.

The technology behind the drone is even more sophisticated than it looks. There are only two moving mechanical parts in the entire tiny 30-cm aircraft: The piece that makes the propeller rotate and a flap on the large wing that comprises most of the drone's form.

Then there's the Samarai's realtime video feed, which an operator can pan and tilt in a full 360 degrees, a capability not found on any other drone of its class, this despite the fact that the drone only contains one camera which is constantly being whipped around by the rotating motion of the aircraft itself.

In order to obtain a steady video feed with the ability to virtually pan and tilt, Lockheed relies on a series of image processing algorithms, Borgia told TPM.

"The algorithms sort of de-rotate the video and turn it back into a frame-by-frame view, similar to what you would see on any basic TV," Borgia said. "All of the image processing is done onboard."

That means that even if disconnected from the cloud or a control server, the Samarai would still be able to provide its operators with constant surveillance capabilities.

Borgia declined to specify the drone's range or endurance, that is, the time it's able to stay aloft in the air.

However, he did note that the Lockheed researchers behind Samarai had experimented with battery-powered and carbon-based fuel versions (the battery powered version is the one demonstrated in the video). Borgia further said that the researchers had "developed simulation tools that allow us to scale the vehicle to meet specific applications," asked for by customers.

Lockheed Martin has not revealed any of its customers or potential partners on the Samarai yet, but Borgia said the company would make announcements "when the customers were ready."

Besides the 30-cm version shown in the June demo video, Lockheed also has field-tested a 17-cm version and is working now to scale down the Samarai even further, to the size of an actual maple seed.

Asked about any potential privacy concerns presented by the Samarai, especially in light of the recent release of a voluntary industry "code of conduct" from drone manufacturers, Borgia said that "customers will have to work through the hurdles."

Lockheed Martin began work on the Samarai in 2007 under a Defense Department program called "nano air," designed to produce "an extremely small, ultra lightweight air vehicle system."