Posted on 05/09/2017 9:44:32 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Do you ever wonder what tomorrow holds? Some people are pretty convinced that the future will be filled with flying cars and jetpacks and robot butlers. But here in the year 2017, I’m not so sure anymore. I have a suspicion that our future might be filled with more machine gun-toting robots, like the one seen above, than robotic butlers.
This particular robot is called a multi-utility tactical transport (MUTT) and was demonstrated by the General Dynamics Land Systems and the US Navy during an event at Camp Pendleton late last month. And despite its adorable canine-inspired acronym, it’s a killer. Yes, that’s a machine gun on top.
And yes, the barrel of the machine gun knocks the antenna on the vehicle, which seems like a design flaw at best. But who am I to judge? That robot will surely be my boss by decade’s end.
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They also would have to worry about missiles set to home in on the radio.
Kind of funny that the gun mounted on this futuristic robot was designed in the 1930’s by a man born in the 1800’s.
“At least until jamming technology becomes more common, at which point they will become completely useless. Which could more or less happen overnight in today’s world.”
The obvious solution to that problem is to make the robots autonomous, making their own kill decisions. What can go wrong?
At least until jamming or hacking technology becomes more commonplace, at which point they’ll become totally useless. Which could actually happen rather quickly in today’s world.
Fixed it.
The branches and sequels in every advanced operations and tactics course taught by any military in the world today basically work through the entire series of the latest technologies against the most asymmetric bits and 'trons, and ends up with a human being putting rounds on target via a relative targeting solutions using sight alignment and trigger control. All the bits and 'trons due is wipe out the unsophisticated and clueless in the early rounds of your brackets, by extremely lopsided margins.
No matter how sophisticated your technology, all capabilities end up being instantiated in your personnel. From Cain vs. Abel, William Wallace, Agincourt, Cowpens, Gettysburg, Belleau Wood, Midway, to Doomsday, the team with the best, biggest, most highly trained, and movtivated badasses wins.
This works as long as one does not forget Lincoln's dictum: "I am not so much concerned with whether God is on our side, as to whether we are on the side of God."
Which is a long winded way of saying the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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