U.S. Army Robots Can Find, Kill Enemy Troops

[Krell]

Robots Created To Save Lives On Battlefield

Battlefield Robots Equipped With Night Vision, Thermal Imaging


New robots armed and equipped with night vision and thermal imaging to find snipers and enemy troops could be used in Iraq and other locations as early as this summer, according to a Local 6 News report.


U.S. Army soldiers can load the new robot with rounds of ammunition and send it off as a scout.

U.S. soldiers searching caves in Afghanistan came up with an idea to take robots already used for bombs and beef them up by adding a rocket launcher and other weapons.

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U.S. Army Robots Can Find, Kill Enemy Troops

Soldiers can load the new robot with rounds of ammunition and send it off as a scout.

"This is probably the first logical step to introducing armed robotics onto the battlefield," U.S. Army spokesman Anthony Sevasto said.

Officials said the $200,000 solider robot never gets tired, won't run the risk of dying and is more capable of killing, according to the report. It could also save thousands of lives, Local 6 News reported.

Military officials say insurgents in Iraq could find one of these robots rolling up on them as early as this summer.


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[Krell]

What surprises me, and disappoints me, is that this is such crude shit!

I worked on better systems than this back in the late 80's - 1990. What we really need, is that bad asses little robot from the movie Red Planet, AMEE - Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion.

Equip a robotic device with advanced detection and defense weaponry, replace the current DARPA Tactical Robots and tie in to the defense system unified by the Comanche helicopters and satellite communications, Enhanced Position Locating Reporting System (EPLRS)

Now THAT'S a scout, take 'em out






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[the great one]

Or they could be men and actually attack the enemy themselves."Home of the brave"pulease!!

[Christoph]

cool!Terminator is becoming reality...viva la U.S Army

[Mels_Smileys45]

Or they could be men and actually attack the enemy themselves."Home of the brave"pulease!!

Thats not being brave, thats being stupid! If a machine can do the job let it. I mean come on now, really

[the great one]

I don't personally believe in war,but if you're going to fight at least do it with honor and courage,don't act like cowards and hide behind a machine.

This is nothing new however,it's not much different then dropping bombs from an airplane.

[Undercurrent]

I don't personally believe in war,but if you're going to fight at least do it with honor and courage,don't act like cowards and hide behind a machine.

This is nothing new however,it's not much different then dropping bombs from an airplane.

Yeh, and while we are at it, why not just line the two opposing armies up in an open field, have everyone wear bright orange clothes so that no one can hide, and fight it out like real men!!! No weapons, one huge fist fight!!! Do you think that would be more honorable & couragous? It would be absolute hell!!! I dont beleive in War either, but not using all of the resources you have within reason would be plain stupid. I mean what if I said, "well i think it would be more courages to fight without this bazooka" Do you really think the enemy is going to put theirs down as well?

[Krell]

I don't personally believe in war,but if you're going to fight at least do it with honor and courage,don't act like cowards and hide behind a machine.

This is nothing new however,it's not much different then dropping bombs from an airplane.

So historically speaking, the use of catapults was cowardly?

So all the nations soldiers that drove tanks, or subs, battleships, were pussies? Bombers and Stealth fighter pilots are cowards?


you need to go get that Braveheart tape youve been watching and give it back to your boyfriend


I say, build a better mousetrap! A TERMINATOR one



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[Mels_Smileys45]

I don't personally believe in war,but if you're going to fight at least do it with honor and courage,don't act like cowards and hide behind a machine.

This is nothing new however,it's not much different then dropping bombs from an airplane.

Don't be a pussy and download that next CD, go snatch it out of the artists hands! lol



Just fucking with ya dood. I just don't agree with you here.

[Krell]

Ya me too

I dont like war, but ive seen enough rubble and bodies to believe in it. It isnt pretty, but id rather say "my machine kicked your machines ass" or at least whomever we are fighting, than see nothing but fields of body parts.


While you were growing up playing cowboys and indians, and hide and seek, I was designing bombs that can not be disabled, at all.

This also led me to theorize how machines might be able to contradict a fail safe structure.

I love technology, and within some certain moral and philisophical reasons, I think it should work for us.





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[the great one]

Yeh, and while we are at it, why not just line the two opposing armies up in an open field, have everyone wear bright orange clothes so that no one can hide, and fight it out like real men!!! No weapons, one huge fist fight!!! Do you think that would be more honorable & couragous? It would be absolute hell!!! I dont beleive in War either, but not using all of the resources you have within reason would be plain stupid. I mean what if I said, "well i think it would be more courages to fight without this bazooka" Do you really think the enemy is going to put theirs down as well?

If both sides have bazookas,at least that would be fair,but we're talking about going against an impoverished country with a weapon that can kill the "enemy",but the enemy has no chance in fighting back.Now is that within reason?I don't think so.

[the great one]

Don't be a pussy and download that next CD, go snatch it out of the artists hands! lol



Just fucking with ya dood. I just don't agree with you here.

Everybody has their own opinion,I have no problem with that.

[Krell]

Hey don't turn my TERMINATOR robot thread in to another pussified bleedheart "poor innocent Iraqi victems" thread!

Here, have some Kool-Aid and get ahold of your senses



and stop muckin up a fine combat thread




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[the great one]

So historically speaking, the use of catapults was cowardly?

So all the nations soldiers that drove tanks, or subs, battleships, were pussies? Bombers and Stealth fighter pilots are cowards?


you need to go get that Braveheart tape youve been watching and give it back to your boyfriend


I say, build a better mousetrap! A TERMINATOR one



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If both sides have relatively the same capabilities,then no,as long as both sides can defend themselves.Although dropping a bomb that kills thousands of people from thousands of miles up in the air isn't the bravest thing in the world.

Now I don't see us going back to the days of swords and shields,but they at least knew what it was like to risk thier lives for a cause.Also there wasn't this huge problem of innocent people getting killed by "friendly fire".

I understand that people have this urge to go to war,but at least do it in a way that is respectable.Guns are fine because both parties can defend themselves.

All I can see this doing in the future is causing more war,if there is no risk to the soldiers then people won't question the motivation for war as much.The whole reason people get in an uproar is because they're worried about losing family members.

[method]

I like krell's idea of machine vs. machine... but really... won't this technology just be used against countries that don't even know how to make robots of their own??

I wonder if they work well against unarmed civilians as well?