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Gari_305 OP t1_irak504 wrote

From the Article

>The footage begins with a shot of the drone as it approaches the rooftop of a building in a nondescript urban area with the compact armed robot dog being carried under the drone’s frame. The drone, acting as a robotic dropship of sorts, then lands atop the roof, releases the robodog, and flies away. Shortly thereafter the robodog unfurls from its folded position and begins navigating its new surroundings with what looks to be a Chinese QBB-97 light machine gun (designated as Type 95 LGM in the United States) mounted on its back.

Is this the future of warfare, utilizing robots in such a manner?

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ConfirmedCynic t1_irb9wwg wrote

Future of a techno-tyranny, I fear. They could use them against their own civilian population if there's any hint of dissent. Human soldiers might balk at shooting their own people, but these wouldn't.

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stick_always_wins t1_irawc03 wrote

Seems straight out one of those dystopian futuristic pieces of media like CoD Advanced Warfare, Elysium, Oblivion, etc.

Ominous but kinda cool at the same time

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Test19s t1_irb6ev2 wrote

Much older. A larger robot that carries a smaller one that unfurls into a four-legged killer animal bot dates back at least to Transformers 1984 (Ravage).

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Gernafax t1_irbzyul wrote

Much older. A goat that unloads it’s radioactive guts onto unsuspecting passerbyers after someone remotely detonates the dynamite they fed it 1948. (Creampie)

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Xiqwa t1_irb8qz6 wrote

Now imagine that they are scheduled to make a million of these in 3 years.

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deffParrot t1_irci1dk wrote

And in a couple weeks one can build an IMP generated that renders one million of those useless.

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Xiqwa t1_irdpary wrote

Depends on its radial spread though doesn’t it?

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Test19s t1_iranyp9 wrote

>unfurls

Decepticon cassette. Ugh.

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Maple_Station t1_itdp5pa wrote

Probably not with machine guns. But with individual rockets, either anti-air or anti-tank.

It's a great area denial strategy. The dog with a missile launcher doesn't need to stay powered. It just needs to park on the roof and wait for a signal that a helicopter or tank is about to come nearby and to get ready. And then the same rotor drone that carried the dog to the roof can serve as additional sensors and comms for the missile and dogbot before carrying the dogbot back to the operator base.

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