Posted on 10/17/2021 6:50:45 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Ghost Robotics and SWORD International have teamed up to create a rifle-toting "robot dog." Called the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle, or SPUR, the system adds a 6.5mm Creedmoor rifle from SWORD to one of Ghost Robotics' quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles, or Q-UGVs.
The SPUR made its debut on the show floor at the Association of the U.S. Army's (AUSA) main annual convention in Washington, D.C., which opened yesterday. Though Ghost Robotics is partnered with a number of other companies to explore defense and security applications, among others, for its Q-UGVs — which you can read more about in this past War Zone feature — this appears to be the first example of one of these unmanned systems with an actual weapon mounted on it. Unarmed examples of the Q-UGV are notably already in limited use with the U.S. Air Force's 325th Security Forces Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida and are being tested by other units within that service.
The exact configuration of the 6.5mm gun inside the SPUR module — how much ammunition it contains, and how hard it might be to reload — are all unclear. A product card for SPUR that emerged during the AUSA show can be instructed remotely to chamber the first round from an unloaded state, as well as clear the chamber and safe the gun.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com ...
Are we in The Matrix?…
6.5 Creedmore?? So these robot dogs are Fudds?
Creedmoor...
Bet ya I can hack them and turn them against their masters..
Well, it won’t go through briars.
Update:
Ghost Robotics has now followed up with The War Zone about SPUR and has clarified that it did not provide the product card regarding the system’s capabilities that had emerged during the AUSA show this week. In addition, Ghost Robotics has stressed that, in its present form, with regards to employing the weapon, SPUR is entirely operator-controlled and does not have any autonomous capabilities.
How does using that cartridge make you a Fudd? It was chosen for its ballistics, I’m sure.
The rifle also has a suppressor mounted.
The Width= tag is your friend.
It’s OK. They have floppy robot ears
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘍𝘶𝘥𝘥? 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦.
Fudd. noun. Slang term for a “casual” gun owner; eg; a person who typically only owns guns for hunting or shotgun sports and does not truly believe in the true premise of the second amendment. These people also generally treat owners/users of so called “non sporting” firearms like handguns or semiautomatic rifles with unwarranted scorn or contempt.
People don’t know what Fudds are. It’s like people think that guy at the range with a 1911, or a Colt Python, or anybody who has a Remington 870 with wood furniture and a vent rib barrel is a Fudd. You could tell point out to the majority of these people that people like Rep. Dan Crenshaw cosponsored things like the TAPS Act (HR 838) and came out in favor or Red Flag laws, or President Donald J. Trump and the bumpstock ban (made thousands of people overnight felons without due process, passage of legislation, or just compensation).
There’s also the site The Firearms Blog which does damage with weekly “Hot Gat or Fudd Crap” postings, usually stuff on Gun Broker that’s been Bubba’d, or just have really tacky ceracoat jobs. These postings have been largely Glocks (or something else antithetical to being Fudd), and have recently moved to AR’s and AK’s.
Like any other culture, gun culture as its fair share of ignorant people, and outright dumb mufkers.
It came into existence when it was found that an Officer's M1892 .38 cal revolver might eventually kill a charging (muslim) Moro in the Philippines, but often not before said Moro killed the officer who had emptied his gun into him.
IOW, it was designed specifically to drop a terrorist in his tracks.
What's not to like?
Has anybody in the USAF given any consideration as to where they would deploy this thing? I mean other than Bagram AFB, which we no longer have, exactly where would it have any utility over armed humans with real dogs?
At the Piggly Wiggly. Unvaccinated citizen detected. You have 20 seconds to comply.
Now we need sharks with lasers on their heads
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