Posted on 10/14/2021 8:26:49 PM PDT by algore
Thanks. I have enough trouble sleeping already….
Easily, I think. It would need to be fairly powerful, no doubt.
Why am I beginning to wish for one of those?
These are effectively identical to the killer drones from the TV series War of The World’s. Hint it didn’t go well for the silly humans.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/how-those-creepy-war-of-the-worlds-aliens-came-to-life-on-epix/amp/
Gee, does it fire ammo or Milk Bones?
This development was as foreseeable as gravity causing things to fall downhill.
Because it can be done DOES mean that someone will do it.
It's perhaps a blessing of sorts that the U.S. is the only nation to have used nuclear weapons in time of war. Our enemies know that we will use weapons of mass destruction to save American lives.
If that means that we land hundreds of thousands of armed mechanical dogs on their shores and drop them from the skies from unmanned aircraft, they KNOW we will do it.
The ultimate goal is big sized kamikaze robots. Imagine a swarm of murder hornet sized drones each programmed to seek out a different human all communicating to the hive AI mind via wireless links, using sensors fusion to eliminate the fog of war. Literally tens of thousands of multispectral sensors to fuse with AI. Forming a God like 4D view from all angles in real time. Each with a 2 gram RDX payload that when ordered or near fuel depletion they crash directly into a human at 200+ mph 2g of RDX will blow a human in half if placed against the torso or completely remove a human head if detonated against even a Kevlar helmet. A predator sized drones could drop 2500kg of 20g drones that’s 125,000 in a swarm if buzzing death. That is the future of warfare.
They could be equipped to bury themselves with nothing above ground except a tiny antenna. They would go into a low power mode to conserve battery and only run enough circuitry to monitor the radio receiver.
Before burying themselves they would have set up sensors to detect activity. The sensors would be radio-linked to the sleeping robots. If there was a sensor hit, one or more robots would be woken up and tasked to raise sensor stalks with video cameras to relay images to a satellite network. Human operators would evaluate the images and other available intelligence. If the command decision was to ambush, human operators would wake up and take control of all the robots and their rifles.
There could be an ambush force of hundreds of rifles deployed without risking a single life. Some of the robots could be walking/running bombs to be sent towards a pinned-down adversary.
Larger combat robots will have internal liquid-fueled dynamos for recharging their batteries. Hollow structural elements in the robot will do double duty as fuel tanks. The dynamos will be operated at opportune moments when there is no need for stealth.
338 Lap, 416 Lap, 50BMG at 3999 yards.
oops, 1400 yards is a very doable anti-robot dog range, assuming your projectile/energy is adequate terminally. 300WM, 300PRC, 338 Lapua, 500BMG all have good chances of disabling this freakshow.
Now, let’s go practice!
TRADE SHOW?! What the hell? Under Gen. Milley and the rest of Biden’s treasonous administration,I assume they’re hoping to sell it to the Red Chinese.
Oh yes Creedmoor
The caliber most circle jerked over.....
In the future I could see dozens of these devices, equipped with pistol furniture instead of rifle furniture, surrounding ‘lawmakers’ and policy-enforcers and making them even less accountable to the public.
I give it five years.
Ten years, I could see the powers that be introduce enough AI to these devices to have them be able to go door-to-door and illegally collect firearms 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. You need to sleep; they do not.
The future looks darker every day.
Why the US continues to show of its latest tech, there by inciting adversaries to match and defend against it, is what I do not understand. Of course, it also advertises how woke it is, as the American Left fights a losing battle against God.
6,5 Creedmore is the “it” cartridgde right now. Everything is chambered for it. You would think the .260 would have caught on, but noooo.
Well, better late than never I guess.
How many of these did we leave for the Taliban in Afghanistan. They got everything else. Why not these? /sarc
Those robot dogs are really amazing when you think about how far the technology has come. With that low profile, they would be murder to spot on a battlefield. THey would be on you before you could spot them. I wonder if they could be found by some kind of mobile battlefiled radar?
Indeed. And every day, I thank God on bent knee that I was born in the 1950s and am nearing the end of my life cycle. It may be 5 years, 10, or 25. I don't know, but at least I should be spared the worst of the worst. I am not being spared seeing the current collapse or knowing the immediate future bleakness and oppression, but I am eternally grateful to the Lord God the Father and the Son Jesus Christ for my not being born much later, such as today. With apologies to all of your children and grandchildren. It is terrifying to think of the oppression they are going to be subjected to. Simply awful.
That’s a 1200 meter shot. Technically possible but tough to reliably execute. Several humans pulled it off. Several.
Our troops in Afghanistan would use a CROWS-MOUNTED 50 caliber machine gun to ‘snipe’, suppress, and mark targets for air strikes. The optics in a CROWS are extraordinary; I hope we left none behind for reverse engineering.
Also later in the conflict technology that was essentially acoustic ‘shot spotters’ was deployed.
All this could be mounted on a remotely piloted land vehicle, whether it had wheels, tracks, or legs.
A regular CROWS is BIG and heavy and wouldn’t fit on this robot dog. But the concept is adaptable to smaller platforms, except perhaps the full optics package.
All this for Afghan troops who would sh!t inside their own Hummers, or light fires inside them ... to avoid the cold.
Chinese AI is sadly operational, self-aware SkyNet gear for these armed robots.
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