My beloved Gaza, the drone warfare has weighed heavily on us this past month. Most of the air raids in the holocaust of Gaza were using Legion X, the bomber fleet of F-16 which carry 2,000 pound bombs. The drone warfare is now exclusively with the high-altitude fleet. The Legion X fleet has left the sky of Gaza. We told each other this will happen because Israel will take the fleet with him to a different battle front. He was using it at maximum capacity in Gaza while reloading and taking off from the flight decks of US ships on Gaza coast. The high altitude fleet is named Hermes, Reaper. It has long wings and a small body. It carries 8 rockets of two variety. One rocket for a moving target, a vehicle. One rocket for static object like a group of people standing or a house. Last week the high altitude drones were striking every other day at journalists and police. This week the high altitude drones have been striking the underground soldiers two or more times a day every other day. Each of these attacks killed and hurt groups of people at one time. The high altitude drone is made for surveillance and killing moving objects. It is engaged for identifying which objects are people, which are vehicles. It knows this based on movement and shape. The computer tags the object moving and tracks the location of movement on the map. If an object stops moving on the street or disappears in a house the computer will wait for the object to reappear into view and match it to the last known still images. If the pattern strongly matches the computer thinks the person returned, the vehicle is visible again. High altitude drones are a small fleet that work together in shift-rotations. The drones stay in the air longer than the crew stays on shift. The drones are sent into the sky by a launch crew. The high altitude drones are always flying, their presence never leaves the airspace. All high altitude drones fly on autopilot at 20,000 feet. There are two men who control every airstrike, the air commander and the co-pilot. Air commander sits watching all of the cameras of the drones across multiple screens. Objects of interest are tracked with screen names. Every day the air commanders sit in the briefing room to tell each other of actions before changing shifts. The main purpose of their work is to know the pattern of life for the people they are looking for. They will use all the data from the multiple drone networks. There are only two objects, the person and the vehicle. The person is identified using the cellphone and gps from low altitude drone networks who identify all cellphones in the area. The high altitude drones can match the gps with the database and know what phone located there. The high altitude drone has infrared camera, it will see the metal tubes of weapons, it will see heat signatures. The computer looks for the objects or persons and generates a "trigger event". Often the meeting of groups becomes a trigger event. High altitude drones establish a pattern of life database for every area it patrols, it always has a "pre-programmed mission". It orbits the point of designated interest marking everything that moves. A person of interest has all details of his pattern of life in the database. Each person of interest has in the database what vehicle he drives, how many children he has, his work address, home address. It looks to see what he is doing all day He may be observed for weeks for reconnaissance gathering purposes. Real time feed is streamed to command bunker. When the drone goes into attack mode it comes down from high altitude and into the airspace near to the object it is tracking, static or moving object. A separate man is designated to watch the drone maneuver with autopilot and this man engages the weapon system to active. All of the rockets are guided by laser tracking the object moving or by gps static coordinates of the objects location. In the holocaust of Gaza we have seen that this phase of flight did not have a human operator, it was completely automated selection to engage to kill. The air commander is overseeing all of the military intelligence database of the operation watching the situation. The co-pilot is to monitor the mechanical descent, activate computer systems kill mode and press the trigger The aircraft drives to a specific angle over the object. If the rocket is fired from a long distance away the rocket will go through the roof of the vehicle and through the side of the car doors From far distance the rocket may strike the top of a house and the angle of attack causes the rocket to fly sideways through the house walls. The drone computer system does the math calculations to drive to the precise airspace over the object so that the rocket will fire at a downward angle onto the object instead of shooting through it. If the object is "minor threat" someone can abort the strike at will that moment. If the object has been marked by the computer system as a "priority target" there is no authorization to abort the strike from occurring unless someone from higher rank is watching the live stream and intercede before the execution of the strike. Rocket takes 30 seconds to reach. The air command is the overseer of the aftermath of the strike, he watches the camera feed for intellectual information such as how the fallout looks, who comes to the scene. Continuing to monitor the screennames of the objects and activity, movement after the object is hit. The men in the control stations for the drones are responsible for the war-fighting system, he is the killer. Autonomous selection of drone killing is a big war crime. Non-combatants can never be indiscriminately killed. Attack should never be disproportionate to present threat.
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