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US Army considers replacing thousands of troops with robots
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 6:14PM GMT 21 Jan 2014 | Ben Farmer

Posted on 01/21/2014 12:56:41 PM PST by Olog-hai

The US Army is considering replacing thousands of soldiers with robots as it deals with sweeping troop cuts.

A senior American officer has said he is considering shrinking the size of the Army’s brigade combat teams by a quarter and replacing the lost troops with robots and remote-controlled vehicles.

The American military is still far from fielding armies of Terminator-type robotic killers, though. Ideas under discussion instead include proposals to see manned trucks and transporters replaced by supply trains of robot vehicles.

Generals are studying proposals as the US Army is to slim down from 540,000 to about 490,000 soldiers by the end of next year. Some reports suggest it could dip below 450,000 by the end of the decade. …

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: control; google; militaryrobots; obama; robots; robotsoldiers; transhumamism; usarmy
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To: Olog-hai

41 posted on 01/21/2014 1:23:12 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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To: NEMDF

It’s really hard to do. The robots are on auto-pilot much of the time with a minder watching them. He only intervenes in an emergency.


42 posted on 01/21/2014 1:23:33 PM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: Sacajaweau

I would guess many of them would have an operator on their weapons gear - remotely, like drone pilots. I am also guessing not all robots would be armed.


43 posted on 01/21/2014 1:23:48 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: a fool in paradise

yep. But I would suspect they would be hardened against that sort of thing, but still.......?


44 posted on 01/21/2014 1:23:58 PM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: F15Eagle
The greatest Sci-Fi movie of all time

"Monsters from the Id!"

45 posted on 01/21/2014 1:24:57 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: Olog-hai

Robots don’t go home after the war and stage a real life re-enactment of the Battle of Athens.....

Which is a another bonus for the establishment for doing so...

That being said anything to prevent troop deaths is a good thing.

However, I fear a day where we get EVEN MORE involved in foreign entanlgements because we could use the excuse “we are only sending robots”....


46 posted on 01/21/2014 1:28:48 PM PST by GraceG
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To: a fool in paradise
How many of them will be female or gay robots?

Hopefully enough to go around.


47 posted on 01/21/2014 1:29:36 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: Alex Murphy

[ What a coincidence - the remake of Robocop comes out in a couple of weeks. ]

I like the movie “Surrogates” better in terms of millitary robots... because they have a human pilot running them instead of a cold hard AI....


49 posted on 01/21/2014 1:29:54 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

DON’T DATE ROBOTS!!!!


51 posted on 01/21/2014 1:30:12 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Sacajaweau

So you have robot guards along the US/Mexican border. How do you tell the good guy from the bad guy??

No you leave the borders open but you use robots to round up all those freedome loving throwback americans who consider themselves citizens and not slaves to the state...


52 posted on 01/21/2014 1:31:33 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Billthedrill
Actually, the Czech word for slave is otrok. The word robota refers to drudgery, or corvée work (unpaid work substituting for paying taxes). It’s related to the Russian word работа, which means any kind of work.
53 posted on 01/21/2014 1:34:03 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Just a guess, but one day Skynet will become self-aware.

5.56mm

54 posted on 01/21/2014 1:36:23 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Olog-hai
What will the gay robots say?

55 posted on 01/21/2014 1:38:22 PM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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To: Olog-hai

Recruiters will be hanging out at Radio Shack?

I’d like a Jr. model robot just to have around for helping with laundry, dishes, yardwork, oil changes, oh, and kicking ass.


56 posted on 01/21/2014 1:40:49 PM PST by Made In The USA (I'm not yelling, just... just talking enthusiastically..)
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To: Olog-hai

You could replace 99% of our admirals and generals with electric toothbrushes.


57 posted on 01/21/2014 1:48:48 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Olog-hai
"Roger roger."


58 posted on 01/21/2014 1:54:08 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Olog-hai

What could possibly go wrong?


59 posted on 01/21/2014 1:56:23 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: M Kehoe

60 posted on 01/21/2014 1:59:48 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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