[lit-ideas] Speaking of weapons technology...
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- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:37:57 EST
_Click here: Israel developing anti-militant "bionic hornet" - Yahoo! News_
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061117/sc_nm/mideast_weapons_dc)
(http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061118/481/f80929c25c28440cacc4e6d4ebf932f5&g=events/wl/080601mideast)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -
_Israel_ (http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Israel) is using
nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be
able
to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on
Friday.
The flying robot, nicknamed the "bionic hornet," would be able to navigate
its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies such as
rocket launchers, the daily Yedioth Ahronoth said.
It is one of several weapons being developed by scientists to combat
militants, it said. Others include super gloves that would give the user the
strength of a "bionic man" and miniature sensors to detect suicide bombers.
The research integrates nanotechnology into Israel's security department and
will find creative solutions to problems the army has been unable to address,
Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told Yedioth Ahronoth.
"The war in Lebanon proved that we need smaller weaponry. It's illogical to
send a plane worth $100 million against a suicidal terrorist. So we are
building futuristic weapons," Peres said.
The 34-day war in Lebanon ended with a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in mid-August.
The war killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 157 Israelis,
mostly soldiers.
Prototypes for the new weapons are expected within three years, he said.
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