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Military Robots Get Machine Guns

Posted by samzenpus on from the remote-war dept.

javaxman writes "Next spring, the U.S. military is expecting to deploy Talon robots with machine guns. They can also be equiped with rocket launchers. Really, they're remote-controlled 'bots, not true autonomous 'bots, so you can save the Skynet jokes for, um, some day in the not-to-distant future. This is just the first, or maybe second step. As for me, I just want to see arena matches between gangs of these suckers. Robot wars indeed!"

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  1. Battlebots! by gatzby3jr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Lets hope this guy doesn't enter into Battlebots ... Kinda takes the seriousness away from war if American death isn't in the picture.

  2. Re:Remote controlled war! by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you this pissed about what France is doing?

  3. Re:Not so bad... by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps I have been to Iran or I have friends who live there. You do not know, no do you? You made an assumption and it made you look like a dumbass.

  4. Re:Seeing your work used "for evil" by Saltine+Cracker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, just think if we were all French war would never happen.