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.
Then they’ll just add AI so they can operate independently to carry out their mission when jammed. What could go wrong?
They also would have to worry about missiles set to home in on the radio.
“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?
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.