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To: M1Tanker

Reminds me of the automatic machine guns used in "Aliens", when the Marines were holed up in that one section of the base, they set up 2 automated guns that had radar which would lock onto anything moving and blast it. Really cool effect. Always wondered why we didn't see similar weapons (particularly with the abundance of 1st person shooter games - technology couldn't be that far behind).


30 posted on 05/08/2006 7:52:43 PM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, son of Jor-el!)
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To: GreatOne
Actually, the automated guns are already here. They are not autonomous, but they are able to act from secured remote controls.

First is the MULE UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) which will have a gun/missle system in the ARV-L model.

Thes UGVs range in size from the small I-Robot Packbot to vehicles as large as a tank. Kinda like the "Bolos" from the Sci-fi books series. UAVs range in size now from papaer airplane dimensions with a small camera, to Helicopters, to the Global Hawk.

44 posted on 05/08/2006 8:44:18 PM PDT by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
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