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Military Robots Get Machine Guns

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. dupe dupe dupe by screwedcork · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    DUUUUUUUPE

  2. 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.

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

    Are you this pissed about what France is doing?

  4. 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.

  5. Chinese have low regard for human life. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Most Chinese do indeed have a low regard for human life.

    Look at the meetings of Amnesty International at your local university. The Chinese are underrepresented at such meetings but are overrepresented in your engineering classes.

    Look at the loud protests that the Chinese held at American universities after the American military accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia. Now, look at the absense of protests by the Chinese on the matter of Tibet.

    I back up what I say with facts. Chinese culture is very different from Western culture. Got that, Chinese pig?

  6. 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.