Robots at War

                We live in an age of new finding and new technology. Technology just keeps getting more and more complicated and advanced but it makes our lives easier in a sense. We use technology everyday for a lot of different uses like boats, cars, airplanes, spaceships, all for transportation. However, even though those can be used for conventional uses they can also be used as weapons. Boats are upgraded to tankers and cars are upgraded to armored assault vehicles and air plane are made into fighter jets. But with all of these great inventions there is a risk of the operator dying whether it would be in a regular car crash or in a huge explosion on a battle field. How would it be if we could avoid the death scenario and have out pilots of fighter planes, or captains of scouting boats operate their machines from a safe distance, remotely? Technology now has allowed us to use machines like that and they have been in use for a good number of years now but we have only made them better and more equipped. Take the reaper for example, it is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that was first used as a plane that could stay in the air for hours and stay undetected. It has now elevated to a devastatingly accurate war weapon that fires hellfire missiles into enemy territory that hits targets in areas that are high security. Whereas fighter jets would have been detected by sensors and the target probably would have left the area. But the real question all this begs is whether or not these remote controlled machines are giving war a video game approach and taking it less seriously, or is these machines the next step to securing our countries safety.