Robot cannon kills 9, wounds 14 in shooting exercise gone wrongPosted by Xeni Jardin, October 19, 2007 8:30 AMNoah Shachtman at Wired's Danger Room blog writes,Advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger. Most of the time. Once in a while, though, these machines start firing mysteriously on their own. The South African National Defence Force “is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday.”
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