Link to robot site...
http://www.samsungtechwin.com/product/features/dep/SSsystem_e/SSsystem.html
Posted on 11/15/2006 7:52:01 AM PST by Dark Skies
Samsung's Techwin division will shortly begin selling heavily armed robot sentries that can identify and shoot a target automatically from over two miles away.
The Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot was jointly developed with a South Korean university, and is designed to replace some of the troops guarding the border with North Korea.
The robot will be available next year at a cost of $200,000 per unit, and the company expects to sell 1,000 in the first year.
"The gist of this project is to transform the current guard and observation mission on fronts conducted by soldiers into a robot system," Shin Hyun-don, a South Korean defence ministry spokesman, told The Korea Times.
"We will comprehensively review the requirements of operational capability before implementing it."
The system uses twin optical and infrared sensors to identify targets from 2.5 miles in daylight and around half that distance at night. It has a microphone and speakers so that passwords can be exchanged with human troops.
If the password is not accepted the robot can either sound an alarm or fire at the target using rubber bullets or a swivel-mounted K-3 machine gun.
South Korea's northern border is the most heavily militarised zone in the world, and the southern government has poured millions of dollars into automated military technology.
The country's 3,500 soldiers in Iraq are currently using robot sentries to guard home bases.
You have 15 seconds to comply!
would have been cool to have a blood pressure monitor on the audience when that count down started....
Beware of secret Directive 4
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
"Halt, human! Give the password now."
"Green summer."
[bleen hummer]
(sound of machine gun burst)
"Incorrect password. Give the password now."
"Arrgh...ack...hmmph"
[sarge pack hump]
(second machine gun burst)
"You have one more password attempt. Give the password now."
Ok so 2 mile range, say 1.5M for overlapping kill zones, 2000 mile border with Mexico, you need about 1400, for 200K a piece, that's 280M to secure the border with automated sentries. That ain't bad at all! That's pocket change. Of course, we'll need about another 1M for signs that say, 'cross tthis line and be shot.'
landmines are cheaper.the DMZ has plenty of those too.
klattu barada nikto
KLATTU BARADA NIKTO!
KLATT- (BANG!!)- gurgle!
"Medic! I'm dying!"
"Password accepted, you may pass."
Fatal exception error...
BANG BANG BANG
Yea but these things are cooler. Now, an entrepreneur could certainly hook these suckers up online, and provide pay-per-shoot services. For $39.99, you can stake out a 1.5 mile chunk of the border with your joystick for a 8 hr shift. If you dose off it fires auto (so libs couldn't pay to shut a station off at a particular time).
1400 systems * ~$120/day = 168K/day = 61.3M a year. Say half a that to maintain the system, provide advertising, etc. The system pays for itself.
Darn that's a pretty reasonable business plan...
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