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martinbogo t1_isveqfa wrote

We've had completely computer controlled Abrams tanks since the mid to late 1990s. They used to install SGI supercomputers into the tanks that were so retrofitted.

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Tannerleaf t1_isvq0tt wrote

The Soviets were using Teletanks a few years before then, in their war with Finland:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletank

Presumably because The White Death kept killing the gunners by sending bullets down their little tanks’ gun barrels.

There are probably quite a few other examples of remote controlled ground weapons like this.

Still, these things seem pretty vulnerable.

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