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camelot
Barsoom
USA
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 Posted - 19/10/2007 : 23:53:14
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I guess there are still plenty of ways to wipe us out even with the cold war over....
Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14
We're not used to thinking of them this way. But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic -- picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger. Most of the time. Once in a while, though, these machines start firing mysteriously on their own. The South African National Defence Force "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday."
At http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki.html
And of course the always popular misloading of actual nuclear weapons on a training flight by the US.....
Washington - Several US Air Force officers have been stripped of their command because of major lapses in procedures that led to the accidental transport of nuclear weapons on a flight across the United States, a US general said Friday.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/127365.html
Upddate here http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/nuclear_mistake
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Edited by - camelot on 20/10/2007 00:08:03 |
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Military oops...times two
