Woodward claims new secret "Manhattan Project" won Iraq war! New secret techniques and weapons!

[MikeWB]

WOW!

Just watch this:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 1#26593443

What is this? Anyone care to speculate???

[memory hole]

I would hazzard a guess at "sound weapons"  usung frequencies to control the masses. Scary.

[Anonymous]

Witness accounts of new tech (scalar wave weaponry?) used in Iraq.

[googlevid:1y4g0oyp]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8361811662480560988[/googlevid:1y4g0oyp]

[MikeWB]

It could also be that Woodward is spreading disinfo. He's known to have close ties to CIA. Sound weapons... we'd hear about them from victims since they're non-lethal (majority of them anyway). Scalar weapons... can they affect people?! I think, if they're real, that they're used mostly against the weapon systems or infrastructure.

[MikeWB]

I think this is it:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten13-2008sep13,0,1960509.column

Quote:
Tim Rutten:
An Afghan 'October surprise'?
New technology used in Iraq and Afghanistan to hunt down and kill terrorists may inject itself into the presidential race.
Tim Rutten
September 13, 2008
Friday, The Times' Greg Miller and Julian E. Barnes reported that the United States has escalated its war against Al Qaeda and its Taliban allies by "deploying Predator aircraft equipped with sophisticated new surveillance systems that were instrumental in crippling the insurgency in Iraq."

It's a story whose significance may extend well beyond the benighted hills and valleys of Pakistan's violent Pashtun hinterlands and onto the hustings of our current presidential campaign. Coupled with Thursday's report in the New York Times that President Bush has signed a secret order permitting Afghanistan-based U.S. special operations forces to cross into Pakistan without Islamabad's permission, the odds of an "October surprise" that could influence the general election have risen appreciably.

U.S. officials also told The Times that the new surveillance systems allow the operators of the unmanned Predators to locate and identify individual human targets "even when they are inside buildings. ... The technology gives remote pilots a means beyond images from the Predator's lens of confirming a target's identity and precise location."

The Times' story confirms the most sensational revelation contained in Bob Woodward's new book, "The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2007," which was published this week. Woodward revealed the technology's existence but, heeding requests from intelligence officials, declined to describe its operations except to say that it had allowed U.S. forces to locate and kill decisive numbers of senior Al Qaeda operatives and Iraqi insurgents. In what may be the book's most controversial claim, Woodward argues that the secret technology and the so-called Anbar Awakening -- in which counterinsurgency techniques developed by the Marines won over tribal leaders in that crucial Sunni-dominated province -- had as much or more to do with stabilizing Iraq as the "surge" in U.S. troop numbers.

Beyond the purely military considerations, there are potentially significant political implications. First and most obvious is the question of the surge's efficacy. The answer matters, particularly to John McCain, who has been one of the surge's most resolute supporters. If it turns out that it was only one -- and, perhaps, the least consequential -- in a confluence of successful American initiatives, then McCain could go from steadfast to stubborn in voters' minds.

The real wild card pops up if this new surveillance technology allows U.S. forces to find and kill Osama bin Laden. Bush wouldn't be human if he didn't desperately want to see the Al Qaeda warlord dealt with before inauguration day 2009. Moreover, as Woodward writes, the president frequently relishes the death of individual extremists and insurgents in a way that even our professional soldiers find striking. Then-American commander in Iraq Gen. George W. Casey Jr. "told a colleague in private that he had the impression that Bush reflected the 'radical wing of the Republican Party that kept saying, "Kill the bastards! Kill the bastards! And you'll succeed." ' Since the beginning, the president had viewed the war in conventional terms, repeatedly asking how many of the various enemies had been captured or killed."

If U.S. special operations forces capture or kill Bin Laden, or if a CIA technician pushes a button and puts a Hellfire missile between his eyes, Bush will have made good on the vows he made seven years ago to bring the Al Qaeda leader to some sort of justice. In the eyes of many who supported him over the years, that would allow the president to leave office with at least part of his historical reputation intact.

There also are many Republican activists who must hope that an October surprise involving Bin Laden would give McCain -- unswerving supporter of the war and advocate of a muscular, hard-line foreign policy -- a boost by association. At the very least, anything that makes his connection to his party's now dismally unpopular president less of a stigma helps the GOP candidate.

Still, it's also possible that this particular October surprise might also help Barack Obama, at least at the margins, which is where this election increasingly looks to be decided. The Democratic nominee, after all, opposed going to war in Iraq, in part because it was a distraction from the conflict with the Afghan Taliban and Al Qaeda, which had, after all, committed the 9/11 atrocities. If a military technology heretofore monopolized by operations in Iraq finally brings Bin Laden to answer for his crimes, Obama and his supporters can argue that the war in Iraq delayed the day of reckoning in Afghanistan.

That's the thing about surprises, no matter what the month: The consequences frequently are as unlooked-for as the event.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

We had a little debate over at Iraq-war.ru on this one a few days ago.

I thought it was the combination of Satellite Imagery, Unmanned Sentry guns/vehicles with telescopic 360 lenses, Predators to triangulate any 1x1 meter spot. Add a little Datamining and Social Network analysis and it can get pretty spooky.

Link:

REDOWL
by Crack_Smoke_Republican on 12.09.2008 [23:59 ]    
ROBOTIC WARFARE
Advanced Sniper Detection System For iRobot PackBot Unveiled

The REDOWL equipped PackBot (pictured) has been field-tested for the Army's Rapid Equipping Force at a rifle and trapshooting range. Of the more than 150 rounds fired from 9 mm pistols, M-16 and AK-47 rifles from over 100 meters, the REDOWL system located the source of the gunfire successfully 94 percent of the time.
Burlington MA (SPX) Oct 04, 2005
iRobot and The Photonics Center at Boston University have introduced a tactical sensory system payload prototype, dubbed REDOWL, for the combat-proven iRobot PackBot robot.

REDOWL, or Robot Enhanced Detection Outpost with Lasers, can detect and locate snipers and mortars on the very first shot fired at personnel or vehicles.

REDOWL is an ongoing rapid development program led by The Photonics Center at Boston University with iRobot, Insight Technology and BioMimetic Systems. The technology will be demonstrated publicly for the first time at the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., at iRobot booth No. 1750.

REDOWL is a remote, deployable sensor suite designed to provide early warning information, gunshot detection, intelligence, surveillance and targeting capabilities to military forces and government agencies.

The REDOWL equipped PackBot has been field-tested for the Army's Rapid Equipping Force at a rifle and trapshooting range. Of the more than 150 rounds fired from 9 mm pistols, M-16 and AK-47 rifles from over 100 meters, the REDOWL system located the source of the gunfire successfully 94 percent of the time.

The iRobot PackBot is a Tactical Mobile Robot that can be hand-carried and deployed by a single soldier. Proven in Afghanistan and Iraq, PackBot searches dangerous or inaccessible areas, providing soldiers with a safe first look so they know what to expect and how to respond.

"REDOWL more than satisfies mission requirements to provide advanced optical and acoustic detection capabilities to the U.S. military for use in its growing inventory of unmanned ground vehicles," said Dr. Glenn Thoren, director of Project REDOWL.

"Combining optics and acoustics systems together with iRobot's PackBot to detect and locate a source of hostile fire or track moving vehicles, day or night, is a first in systems integration for unmanned vehicles."

REDOWL features an array of optics and acoustic detection systems including a laser pointer and illuminator, acoustic localizer and classifier, thermal imager, GPS positioning, an infrared and daylight camera and two wide-angle cameras.

When integrated with the PackBot, these systems enable the robot to accurately detect, locate and identify the origination point of hostile gunfire. These systems also make REDOWL ideal for day and night urban surveillance, reconnaissance, hostage/barricade situations, forward observation outposts and perimeter protection missions.

"Snipers have had the advantage of being effectively invisible — making them a deadly threat on the battlefield and in urban settings," said Vice Admiral Joe Dyer (U.S. Navy, Ret.), executive vice president and general manager, iRobot Government & Industrial Robots. "REDOWL is a mobile system, which means snipers can run but they cannot hide anymore."

REDOWL features an Acoustic Direction Finding (ADF) system developed by BioMimetic Systems. The ADF is based on advanced "neural circuits" emulating human hearing and provides accurate detection and bearing information in high background noise environments.

In addition to providing its PackBot robot platform, iRobot developed the software and behaviors for the robot. Insight Technology, a manufacturer of high-performance visible and infrared laser and illuminator systems, is heading up the development of REDOWL's optics systems. BioMimetic Systems, a Photonics Center portfolio company, is responsible for REDOWL's acoustic detection and location systems. The Army Research Laboratory is the primary source of funding for the project

www. spacewar.com/news/robot-05zzv.html


Israel deploys robo-snipers on Gaza border (2005)
by Crack_Smoke_Republican on 13.09.2008 [00:01 ]    
Israel deploys robo-snipers on Gaza border
Man still in the loop...to begin with

By Lewis Page → More by this author
Published Tuesday 5th June 2007 12:07 GMT


Israel has begun deploying stationary robot gun-and-sensor installations along its borders with the Gaza Strip, according to reports.

Both Jane's Defence Weekly and Defence News reported last week that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have begun deploying automated gun stations in pillboxes along the Gaza border. The robot systems are said to mount cal-fifty (12.7mm) machine guns, protected by "armoured folding shields" until ready to fire.

Defence News says the auto-gun network is developed by Rafael, the Israeli state weapons bureau. Given the reported calibre of the weaponry, this suggests that the gun-bots in use are the Mini-Samson type, normally used as a remote-controlled gun turret on light fighting vehicles so as to avoid a gunner having to poke his torso up out of a hatch (top gunner is one of the most dangerous jobs in counter-insurgency vehicle patrolling.)

In this case, the automatic guns and their long range electro-optical sensors will be tied in by optic fibre to a command network which will also be able to draw information from existing ground sensors, manned aircraft, and overhead drones.

According to Defence News Tel Aviv correspondent Barbara Opall-Rome, "each machine gun-mounted station serves as a type of robotic sniper, capable of enforcing a nearly 1,500-meter-deep no-go zone".

"The IDF's Southern Command is also considering adding Gill/Spike anti-tank missiles to extend the no-go zones to several kilometers, defense and industry sources here said."

The integrated robo-sniper network has reportedly been dubbed "See-Shoot" by the IDF, suggesting that asking questions isn't on the priority list.

"Nobody has any business approaching our border fence," an unnamed Israeli official told Opall-Rome. "It's well-understood that this area is off-limits..."

All in all, the Israeli gun-bot force seems distinctly more hardcore than the South Korean one. Not only do the IDF robo-snipers pack a more arse-kicking gun, their automatic armour-shuttered pillboxes seem a lot harder to circumvent than the Korean SGR-A1's "anti-theft alarm".

What's more, there seems to be a future plan for the Israeli gun systems to become true killer robots rather than just remote hardened weapon stations.

"At least in the initial phases of deployment, we're going to have to keep the man in the loop," an unnamed IDF commander reportedly told Opall-Rome. "We don't want to risk making tragic and politically costly mistakes with such a lethal system."

www. theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/israel_robo_sniper_gaza/


Apparently with better far ranging sensors and Lasers
by Crack_Smoke_Republican on 13.09.2008 [00:11 ]    
Pinpointing who did what where is getting easier with the technology. Drones give a near realtime triangulation of where a shot originated from. Add in computerized scanners with algorithms that decode and perceive with Nightvision telescopic lenses up to 1000s of meters, when a man bends down say 3 times in the same location, perhaps to bury an IED, then we are talking a whole new level of robotic warfare. Looks like the freaking Jews pioneered this kind of killing with the Gaza strip.

Lasers Stop Snipers Before They Fire (Updated)
By Noah Shachtman EmailApril 26, 2007 | 12:12:00 PMCategories: Gadgets and Gear, Guns

Cops and soldiers now have the ability to pinpoint incoming sniper fire. The military's way-out research arm wants to take that a step further, by finding and "neutralizing" shooters before they ever pull their triggers.

Sniper_at_americans If it pans out, Darpa's C-Sniper system "will operate day and night from a moving vehicle... Once detection is made, the C-Sniper system will provide the data and control to point and track the on-board weapon system on the selected target. The decision to engage with the target will be left to the operator."

Darpa doesn't say much about how researchers might pull off this "detection and neutralization of enemy snipers." But the agency does note that "if the system utilizes laser technology then it must be eye safe for all personnel."

For years, military engineers have been working to build a similar system — using flashes of laser light to "illuminate potential hiding places... and detect retro-reflections from the sniper's scope," a Rand Corporation report notes. At the Air Force Research Laboratory', this laser-based counter-sniper effort is called "BOSS," short for the Battlefield Optical Surveillance System.

It is a grouping of lasers, optics, sensors, and communications equipment mounted on a high-mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle (HMMWV). Initially envisioned as a mobile counter-sniper platform, BOSS has evolved into a working concept of a covert surveillance/detection system with the ability to visibly (or invisibly) designate a battlefield threat. BOSS contains: A forward looking infrared (FLIR) sees in the 8-12 micron range of the spectrum, detecting temperature differences between bodies that allow it to "see" hot vehicle components from the heat generated. An infrared camera/illuminator uses backscattered infrared (808 nm) illumination to light up an area of interest at distances up to 1 km. Optical augmentation (glint) from an individual's rifle scope/binoculars or even a person's retinas provides a means of detecting that individual. Variable focus on the illum-ination/camera can then determine, without alerting the suspect, whether the person is carrying weaponry or is moving suspiciously. The infrared laser can also be used to covertly designate (spotlight) a person for night vision-capable forces. A visible laser, a doubled neodymium doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) (green) laser, or an optional red laser can also be used to visibly designate a threatening individual. The threatening individual's reaction to visible illumination can help determine his intent; if hostile, direct force can be used, and if non-hostile, firing lethal rounds can be averted. As used in the battlefield, neither laser will harm the human eye. Finally, a microwave relay allows the operator to transmit the FLIR and infrared camera video to a command post up to 10 miles away.

Earlier efforts, along similar lines, had to be stopped, after an international treaty banned the use of blinding lasers in 1996. Today, San Diego's Torrey Pines Logic Inc. has been working on its Mirage 1200 — a hand-held, binocular-like device that uses eye-safe laser pulses to find snipers' scopes. The company has a video of it in action:

But Darpa envision its C-Sniper system going far beyond either the Air Force's or Torrey Pines' projects. The agency wants to have its sniper-detector "integrated" with its existing gunshot-locator, the Crosshairs/Boomerang system. Here's how I described the device for the New York Times:

Boomerang uses a bundle of seven microphones, each facing a different direction, mounted on top of an 18-inch pole. When a bullet flies by, creating a shock wave, each microphone picks up the sound at a slightly different time. Those tiny differences allow the system to calculate where the shooter is. (Boomerang also listens for the blast from the gun's muzzle, which reaches the system just after the bullet's faster-than-sound flight.) Inside the Humvee, a recorded voice buzzes through a dashboard speaker, announcing the shooter's position — Shot 10 o'clock! Shot 10 o'clock! — and an analog clocklike display indicates the direction. Other information, like the shooter's G.P.S. coordinates, range and elevation, are also provided. We're now accurate way beyond 500 meters, says Dave Schmitt, Boomerang's program manager at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Mass.

Integrating a series of shot-listening mics with a system that can take snipers out before they fire will be a major challenge. It gets started next Thursday, when Darpa holds a secret meeting to kick the program off.

According to iCasulaties.org, 45 coalition troops have been killed by sniper fire since the beginning of the Iraq war. Combined with the agency's effort to build a next-generation sniper scope for American shooters, the C-Sniper represents a big, new push by the Pentagon's farthest-thinking researchers to slow down that casualty count.
blog. wired.com/defense/2007/04/darpa_countersn.html


Automated Weapons
by Crack_Smoke_Republican on 13.09.2008 [00:33 ]    
This crap probably works best in the flatter landscape of Iraq than the mountainous Afghanistan.
CMU's snooping robot going to Iraq
Friday, May 21, 2004
By Byron Spice, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A robot designed for urban warfare will soon be on its way to assist U.S. Marines in Iraq, where the scrappy machine can peer around corners and snoop in areas too dangerous or inaccessible for human soldiers.

Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory
A researcher throws a Dragon Runner prototype over a wall during testing at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. The device was designed to reach its destination either under its own power or by being thrown or dropped.
Called Dragon Runner, the four-wheeled device is small and light enough to be carried in a soldier's backpack and rugged enough to be tossed over fences and up or down stairwells.
"We've thrown it out of second- and third-story windows," said Capt. Dave Moreau, project officer for Dragon Runner at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico, Va. "We've thrown it off the back of a moving vehicle at 45 miles an hour."
The flat, squarish robot can operate whichever way it lands. "There's no right side up," Moreau said. The robot is steered by a soldier, who can see where it is going via its onboard video camera. It has infrared capabilities for operating at night.
Dragon Runner was developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and the National Robotics Engineering Consortium under contract to the Marines. Twelve prototypes have been built by the CMU spinoff Automatika Inc. and are being delivered to the Marines.
The Corps isn't talking much about its deployment plans, other than to say some will be sent overseas in the near term to deployed Marine units. But Iraq, where Marines only last month defused a standoff at the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, is the only area where Marines face the prospect of urban warfare.
If Dragon Runner performs well, the Pentagon conceivably would be interested in buying hundreds of the robots. Hagen Schempf, a senior systems scientist at the Robotics Institute who was principal investigator for Dragon Runner, said he thinks applications in civilian law enforcement and firefighting might eventually outnumber those in the military.
"We might soon face a different problem here ---- how fast can we make how many?" said Schempf, who is co-founder and chairman of Automatika, which has licensed the Dragon Runner technology from CMU.
Moreau, a Pittsburgh-area native and graduate of Central Catholic High School, said Dragon Runner's origins go back three years, after the Marines re-examined their urban warfare tactics and identified a need for a small robotic scout and listening post.
A big problem in urban environments, he explained, is "situational awareness." Enemy and civilians are intermixed and fighting must occur in and around a wide variety of structures. A machine that could carry cameras, microphones and other sensors inside and around buildings could reduce the danger to Marine units that must enter those environments.
Some military units already use small robots like the Packbot robots that explored caves during the search for al-Qaida members in Afghanistan. But those robots were designed primarily for explosive ordnance disposal.Even before the Marines started looking for the technology to build their robotic scout, Schempf was pushing the idea of small, mobile robots and in search of a customer. During a tour of CMU by Brig. Gen. William Catto, then commander of the Warfighting Lab, Schempf got his ear and found him receptive to the idea.
That was three years ago. Dragon Runner today is a 9-pound electric vehicle about 15 inches long, a little less than a foot wide and just five inches in height. Moreau said Dragon Runner can operate in three modes:
Drive mode. The machine has a top speed of 20 mph and also can be operated slowly and deliberately. The video camera transmits color imagery to the operator, who controls it using a hand-held controller/view screen.
Sentry mode. It can operate as a stationary listening post, with a directional microphone and sensors that can detect motion up to 30 feet away. If it detects something, it can alert the operator by vibrating the hand control or sending a verbal "motion left" or "motion right" alert through an earphone.
Watch mode. Again, the vehicle would remain motionless, but would use its cameras to relay information.

Depending on its performance overseas, changes could be made or it could be transferred to Marine Corps Systems Command, which could begin an acquisition program.
The Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle (TUGV) is a remotely operated unmanned ground vehicle employed by the United States Marine Corps.
The Gladiator is designed to be able to operate at all times of the day through the use of image intensifying or thermal devices. It is designed to support
dismounted units in all environments and terrain and is modular to allow the fitting of mission specific payloads.
The main uses for the Gladiator will include direct combat, surveillance, reconnaissance, and personnel obstacle breaching.
It is equipped with a Thales SWARM remote weapon station, which can operate a variety of weapons. Most are equipped with a 7.62mm M240 machine gun.1
It is built by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, with MillenWorks as a subcontractor.2
192 Gladiators were expected to be deployed in 2007.
The deployment of new robots in Iraq is planned for March and April.
The SWORD-type robot soldiers are fitted with either M249 or M240 rifle that feature a high firing accuracy.
Their ability to aim at targets and their battlefield awareness are provided by fitting them with four video cameras,
a night vision device and some telescopic lenses. The robot is controlled by a purpose-trained soldier with the aid of a
remote control device provided with a radio communications with the vehicle. The remote control device can be connected by means of optical fibre
cable (in so doing, a better resistance to electrical interference is achieved). The control itself is quite simple, being carried out by means of a joy-stick.
The storage batteries enable the robot to operate autonomously for 4 hours. In so doing, the robot can move at a maximum speed of 6.6 km/h,
negotiate various obstacles, including obstructions and staircases, as well as transporting up to 90 kg of load. The SWORD features a high degree of survivability –
it is able to operate after being hit by small arms fire as well as being able to move under water.
www. army-guide.com/eng/article/article_62.html
Guardium autonomous observation and target intercept system was developed by G-NIUS Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles joint venture
company established by Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems. The Guardium system employs autonomous unmanned ground vehicles (UGV)
which can be operated from a command center, carry out routine patrols and quickly respond to evolving emergencies.
They can suppress suspicious elements close to the perimeter, and hold them back until manned security forces arrive, or use various forceful means to eliminate the threat, if applicable.
www. defense-update.com/products/g/guardium.htm
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Read the last one if you want to see what the Idiot Jew Military Contractors have in mind for your Goyim hometown someday.

http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/174822

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

It might have been just tons bribe monies made up of US dollars fresh off the fake presses of the Federal Reserve.   That's likely the real fantastic "weapon".