New Woodcuts Underway: UAV and SWORDS
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Here are a couple new ones I’m working on…
These are 2 remote controlled military robots that are in production and in use today. The top one is a SWORDS and can be weaponized in different configurations. The bottom one is an backpack sized Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Honeywell. The UAV is remote controlled or programmable eye in the sky that is unarmed.
I’m both fascinated by and terrified of these things. On one hand, they are just really cool - in the same way that a guy might be attracted to action movies, loud motorcycles or the latest technological gadgetry. On the other hand, these are real things that exist and operate today in real war zones. They are also real things that you may find helping out with domestic security jobs - I know of one US city that is using this UAV to keep an eye on crowds at public events.