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S. Korea: Robot Sentry Developed For DMZ Duty
Yonhap News (via Naver.com) ^
| 07/07/05
| Lee Ok-hyun
Posted on 07/07/2005 5:34:02 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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I wonder if it also comes with a flamethrower.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; OahuBreeze; yonif; risk; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; ...
To: TigerLikesRooster
Is it a swiss army sentry? Wonder if it will have a scissor and toothpick attachment.
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posted on
07/07/2005 5:37:59 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Flame thrower!
Yessss!
To: TigerLikesRooster
Why don't they just surrender... that's what they really want to do.
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posted on
07/07/2005 5:43:47 AM PDT
by
johnny7
(“Hey ma.... top of the world!” -Jody Garrett)
To: Jet Jaguar
Re #4
Like this one:
To: TigerLikesRooster
Good, anything to reduce the number of our troops that will die-in-place if the NKs go nuts and start coming across the border.
Preferably, they'll deploy thousands of these things.
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posted on
07/07/2005 5:44:37 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
Clever device! We need these on OUR border!
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posted on
07/07/2005 5:57:58 AM PDT
by
docbnj
(There are just three good judges, joined in the this case by O'Connor (to her credit).)
To: Spktyr
"Preferably, they'll deploy thousands of these things."
The sooner the better. My son is a translater stationed in S. Korea. The sooner SK takes responsibility for its own defense the better I like it. We have been there WAY too long.
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posted on
07/07/2005 5:59:54 AM PDT
by
commonasdirt
(Reading DU so you won't hafta)
To: commonasdirt
Good post. My question is does S. Korea really want to be responsible for there own defense? Do you see S. Korea ever asking America to ever leave? I have a hard time seeing the S. Korea's asking the U.S. to leave because of all the money it pumps into there economy.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Muzzle awareness!!
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posted on
07/07/2005 6:07:18 AM PDT
by
Airborne1986
(Well, you can do what you want to us. But we're not going to sit here while you badmouth the U.S.A.)
To: 2001convSVT
Good point. I suppose they have been too busy in recent years building factories, etc.,. I wonder what our trade deficict is with them? A partial solution would be to send them a bill for defense services.
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posted on
07/07/2005 6:10:12 AM PDT
by
commonasdirt
(Reading DU so you won't hafta)
To: commonasdirt
A better reason would be to give the NKers second thoughts about pouring over the border - in the initial exchange, they'll lose hundreds or thousands or men to these bots, and the South Koreans will just lose a bunch of bots.
Apparently it really sucks when you have to face getting killed by a bot and don't have a chance to kill the operator or the guy responsible.
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posted on
07/07/2005 6:25:56 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Spktyr
Good reason. I always get a warm happy feeling when I read about the military using a predator drone to take someone out. It's gotta be massively frustrating to the other side to know they are getting it from hardware.
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posted on
07/07/2005 6:32:45 AM PDT
by
commonasdirt
(Reading DU so you won't hafta)
To: commonasdirt
The US military really likes bots and drones, too.
As one commander put it, writing a letter to a dead soldier's parents is a lot harder than writing a letter that runs thus:
"Dear General Dynamics; I regret to inform you that your robot, serial number 388711824789, was destroyed in combat with enemy forces. Please send four more."
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posted on
07/07/2005 6:37:52 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Spktyr
What happens when the "bot" runs through that 30rd magazine?
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posted on
07/07/2005 6:51:35 AM PDT
by
Wu
(Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
To: Wu
I believe that that's just a development unit. I surmise that they're limiting the amount of damage the thing can do if the trigger mechanism gets stuck (while they're working the bugs out). I'd rather have a 30 round runaway than a 500 round runaway.
It looks perfectly capable of mounting a light or medium beltfed machine gun.
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posted on
07/07/2005 6:57:06 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Wu
"What happens when the "bot" runs through that 30rd magazine?"
It switches to flame thrower.
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posted on
07/07/2005 6:58:11 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/07/2005 7:21:29 AM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(most politicians would rather be important rather than useful)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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