Defense Company Announces an AI-Powered Dome to Shield Cities and Infrastructure From Attacks (cnbc.com) 35
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Italian defense company Leonardo on Thursday unveiled plans for an AI-powered shield for cities and critical infrastructure, adding to Europe's push to ramp up sovereign defense capabilities amid rising geopolitical tensions.
The system, dubbed the "Michelangelo Dome" in a nod to Israel's Iron Dome and U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for a "Golden Dome," will integrate multiple defense systems to detect and neutralize threats from sea to air including missile attacks and drone swarms... Leonardo's dome will be built on what CEO Roberto Cingolani called an "open architecture" system meaning it can operate alongside any country's defense systems... Leonardo's dome will be built on what CEO Roberto Cingolani called an "open architecture" system meaning it can operate alongside any country's defense systems.
The system, dubbed the "Michelangelo Dome" in a nod to Israel's Iron Dome and U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for a "Golden Dome," will integrate multiple defense systems to detect and neutralize threats from sea to air including missile attacks and drone swarms... Leonardo's dome will be built on what CEO Roberto Cingolani called an "open architecture" system meaning it can operate alongside any country's defense systems... Leonardo's dome will be built on what CEO Roberto Cingolani called an "open architecture" system meaning it can operate alongside any country's defense systems.
Re: This should scare the shit out of everyone (Score:1)
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The assumption that other countries are eager to replace the dollar misses a key point: reserve currency status is not a trophy, it is a trap. Switzerland actively resists it. China actively manages the yuan to avoid it. Once your currency globalizes, you lose monetary sovereignty to offshore markets, exactly like the Fed and the Eurodollar system.
So the idea that the world is ro
Re: This should scare the shit out of everyone (Score:1)
Did you just say he's the bigger troll?
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Re: This should scare the shit out of everyone (Score:1)
Why hasn't the Swiss franc become the world's reserve as libertarians like Jerry Pournelle predicted in the 1970s?
Since Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the UK have already been reserve currencies, is the lesson that you better be able to defend yourself without relying on someone else (as Britain relied on the US)? And even if China can win, does the current regime value capital controls more than cheap imports?
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Ya but what use are nukes when almost all your enemies are inside your country and in enough numbers to subvert democracy specially with them voting in a block or vote jihad and opportunistic opposition parties helping them & hugely foreign funded or hijacked media etc etc ?
Its like UK could nuke someone too but whom ? Their nukes will soon be legally, officially, democratically under the control of their enemies
I guess real Capitalism is legal hostile takeover of fully functional profitable companies a
oblig. GREETINGS, PROFESSOR FALKEN. (Score:2)
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No details. (Score:3)
A remarkable lack of details.
Exactly what is this proposing to do? Shoot down missiles with a quadcopter?
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It isn't a weapon, it's an integration project. It uses AI to connects "sensors" to "effectors" https://www.leonardo.com/en/fo... [leonardo.com] . It apparently is the thing that will decide if the threat is better thwarted with Patriots or quadcopters. The idea makes sense to me; as a mere minute or two separates a missile launch from a its target, countermeasures must be as automated as possible.
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It's not a plan, it's a concept of a plan. And this company would really like to take money from whatever countries it can convince to hand it over, for this concept of a plan.
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It's not a dome (Score:5, Interesting)
No amount of AI can make up for the number of interceptors. The entire dome metaphor is stupid and misleading. Layered air defense systems have been around since forever. Slapping the AI and dome label on it doesn't change this one bit. It's just marketing.
The only new quality in air defense are laser based systems such as the British Dragon Fire. But those aren't a dome either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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AS I recall, someone tried using chemical SNAP generators with lasers and Neural Networks in the 1980's or 90's.
The system tried to shoot down the moon. Again. Happened before too, with a straight radar system (the Soviets tried? Might have been the US, I forget).
"Mistakes are being made." (Score:2)
"You are being irrational. Go back to bed." - AI. (via Colossus: The Forbin Project)
So, (Score:4, Funny)
Like a net? For the sky?
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No, no! Like an Astrodome for the sky!
And speaking of the Astrodome, can we please blow it up already? It's an ugly monstrosity whose time has long, long ago passed.
oh slashdot (Score:3)
> Leonardo's dome will be built on what CEO Roberto Cingolani called an "open architecture" system meaning it can operate alongside any country's defense systems... Leonardo's dome will be built on what CEO Roberto Cingolani called an "open architecture" system meaning it can operate alongside any country's defense systems.
This is like a dupe in a single post, well done slashdot.
Re: oh slashdot (Score:1)
Would AI make that mistake?
FFS: yet more AI powered waffle (Score:3)
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Iron dome is a misnomer. Should have called it Iron Colander
Hold my Oreshnik (Score:2)
Let me bitchslap you with Mach10
Make them scared (Score:2)
And the USA has no end of "bad guys" to point to, even though they nt actually any threat.