Pentagon funds universities to contribute to war....

[tlcandie]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/19/1525206

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DAVID MEIERAN: Well, I'll give you an example. One weapon that is being developed is called “Gladiator.” What it is is an unmanned combat vehicle that has sitting on top of it an M-35 machine gun, and a launcher that can fire C.S. gas. It's part of a sequence of robotics -- robot vehicles that have been developed by Carnegie-Mellon University. One that just made the news recently earlier this year is “Dragon Runner,” which is a type of vehicle that can go and do surveillance and you know, go into places where the Marines for example, can not go. One of the things that C.M.U. has constantly tried to downplay is the fact that these aren’t really weapons, that they're really for dual use and they sort of pass it off and sanitize their military ties, saying, “Well, you know, it's like a driverless car.” But the fact remains that it's only with these tools that the U.S. is able to sustain its quote, unquote, international peacekeeping efforts.
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http://www.nolesslethal.org/

[MadHound]

1. This is nothing new,

The Pentagon and other divisions of the armed forces have been funding colleges to develop new weapons for generations now. As has the intelligence community. MIT is notorius for the amount of government funding it gets to develop new weapons systems.

[tlcandie]

2. Did you actually read the weapon here that spews GAS

of some sort? That is nothing new?