Saturday, April 2, 2016

Eye in the Sky (2016)

Eye in the Sky (2015) - IMDb

www.imdb.com/title/tt2057392
Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone ...

Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman in his last movie before he passed away and various other supporting cast members make this a really riveting movie. And more than a rivoting movie:

Variety calls this: "A War story that recalls Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" ". But, in this case this movie is happening every day especially in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia. It's not a theoretical thing like the end of the world and all civilization and the earth likely itself in "Dr. Strangelove". Instead it is just happening 24 hours a day every day of the week. This movie is not theoretical. This kind of thing has been ongoing for likely since around 2001 already. So, by this time likely thousands of people have died this way who were terrorist leaders or suicide bombers. So this is something to think about too.

 This is an important movie because this sort of thing is the future of modern warfare (at least in the western world) where leaders of terrorist groups and cells will be eliminated wherever they are on earth ongoing into the future. So, it is very important we don't get complacent about all this because we are only 15 years into all this at present and this likely will be going on in one form or another for hundreds of years or more. And eventually the terrorists will use this technology on us within 50 years or so. So, this is something to prepare for as well.

 This is why I believe religions are obsolete because of this technology and other technologies. The only way to prevent human extinction is through the education of the masses to prevent more and more extreme terrorists around the world. I believe the days of the world Wars is over because of nuclear weapons. But, the days of terrorist wars could continue for hundreds or even thousands of years. So, we need to prepare for all this now somehow.

So, if you are wondering about what is actually going on every day with hellfire missiles and armed drones, this movie shows likely what actually happens in many cases all the time.

Basically, this movie is about the ongoing terrorist war and "Collateral damage" .


The first successful test drone strike was in 2001.


General Atomics MQ-1 Predator - Wikipedia, the...

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General Atomics MQ-1 Predator. ... In the first week of June 2001, a Hellfire missile was successfully launched on a ... ^ "U.S. Carries Out First Drone Strike in ...
The RAF Reaper drone targeted Islamic State militants with a Hellfire missile as they were planting bombs north of ... British Drone Launches First Strike In Iraq.

Also, a further evolution of the Hummingbird drone is also seen and used in this movie. One of the orgininal ones is in this compilation of drones I made a few years ago in:

reprint of: Drones very small to large

Here is the hummingbird drone part:

begin quote from wikipedia under the heading "nano air vehicle" 

AeroVironment Nano Hummingbird

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Nano Hummingbird
Artificial hummingbird weighs less than an AA battery
Role Experimental UAV
Manufacturer AeroVironment
Primary user DARPA
The AeroVironment Nano Hummingbird or Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) is a tiny, remote controlled aircraft built to resemble and fly like a hummingbird, developed in the United States by AeroVironment, Inc. to specifications provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Hummingbird is equipped with a small video camera for surveillance and reconnaissance purposes and, for now, operates in the air for up to 11 minutes. It can fly outdoors, or enter a doorway to investigate indoor environments. It was announced to the public on 17 February 2011.[1][2][3]

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Specifications

DARPA contributed $4 million to AeroVironment since 2006[4] to create a prototype "hummingbird-like" aircraft for the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program.[5] The result was called the Nano Hummingbird which can fly at 11 miles per hour (18 km/h) and move in three axes of motion. The aircraft can climb and descend vertically; fly sideways left and right; forward and backward; rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise; and hover in mid-air. The artificial hummingbird maneuver using its flapping wings for propulsion and attitude control. It has a body shaped like a real hummingbird, a wingspan of 6.3 inches (160 mm), and a total flying weight of 0.67 ounces (19 g)—less than an AA battery. This includes the systems required for flight: batteries, motors, and communications systems; as well as the video camera payload.

Technical goals

DARPA established flight test milestones for the Hummingbird to achieve and the finished prototype met all of them, and even exceeded some of these objectives:[3]
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  • Demonstrate precision hover flight within a virtual two-meter diameter sphere for one minute.
  • Demonstrate hover stability in a wind gust flight which required the aircraft to hover and tolerate a two-meter per second (five miles per hour) wind gust from the side, without drifting downwind more than one meter.
  • Demonstrate a continuous hover endurance of eight minutes with no external power source.
  • Fly and demonstrate controlled, transition flight from hover to 11 miles per hour fast forward flight and back to hover flight.
  • Demonstrate flying from outdoors to indoors, and back outdoors through a normal-size doorway.
  • Demonstrate flying indoors "heads-down" where the pilot operates the aircraft only looking at the live video image stream from the aircraft, without looking at or hearing the aircraft directly.
  • Fly the aircraft in hover and fast forward flight with bird-shaped body and bird-shaped wings.
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The device is bigger and heavier than a typical real hummingbird, but is smaller and lighter than the largest hummingbird varieties. It could be deployed to perform reconnaissance and surveillance in urban environments or on battlefields, and might perch on windowsills or power lines, or enter buildings to observe its surroundings, relaying camera views back to its operator.[4] According to DARPA, the Nano Air Vehicle's configuration will "provide the warfighter with unprecedented capability for urban mission operations."[5]

References

  1. ^ Artificial hummingbird developed Irish Independent. 2011-02-18.
  2. ^ Nano Hummingbird. AeroVironment, Inc. 2011-02-16.
  3. ^ a b AeroVironment Develops World’s First Fully Operational Life-Size Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft for DARPA. AeroVironment, Inc. 2011-02-16.
  4. ^ a b It's a bird! It's a spy! It's both Los Angeles Times, 2011-02-17.
  5. ^ a b Nano Air Vehicle Defense Sciences Office, DARPA. Retrieved: 2011-02-20.

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