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#Autonomous #Drones Have Attacked Humans. This Is a Turning Point
#Drone experts have long dreaded this moment.
By Kyle Mizokami, Nov 2, 2021
"Sometime around March 2020, this longstanding trope of science fiction—autonomous attack drones eliminating human beings on the futuristic battlefield—crossed over into science fact. That’s when, during the Second Libyan Civil War, the interim Libyan government attacked forces from the rival Haftar Affiliated Forces (#HAF) with Turkish-made #Kargu2 (#Hawk2) drones, marking the first reported time autonomous hunter killer drones targeted human beings in a conflict, according to a United Nations report.
"Unmanned combat aerial vehicles, loitering munitions, and the Kargu-2 'hunted down and remotely engaged' HAF logistics convoys and retreating fighters, the UN report found. The autonomous drones were programmed to attack targets 'without requiring data connectivity between the operator and munition,' meaning they located and attacked HAF forces independent of any kind of pilot or control scheme.
The Kargu-2 is a quadcopter drone developed by #STM, a Turkish defense contractor. The drone features sensors and an electronic brain, and is designed to carry a weapons payload. In marketing materials, STM explicitly says Kargu-2 is capable of carrying out an autonomous attack."