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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!"
Post this again when they graduate to frickin lasers.
Didn't they get shotguns about a month ago? From what I can tell they'll have rocket launchers by the begining of next year.
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Military people were complaining gamers make crap soldiers... now we'll own them at robot wars and laugh at how they mocked us for playing space invaders!
I like muppets.
Did anyone else notice the page file was lemming.htm?
As long as they remember to enable the WEP security.
As that old Negro spiritual goes, "[Tibet,]free at last! [Buddha] all mighty! Free at last!"
I would say you're smoking something, but any plant strong enough to make you come up with that would have poisoned itself first and not grown.
rather than telling the difference between a guerilla carrying an RPG and a farmer carrying a section of irrigation pipe.
Do farmers really carry irrigation pipe in battle zones?
Perhaps we can pass out leaflets warning said farmers.
"What's the frequency Kenneth?"
...which means that it's only a matter of time before the U.S. Army deploys Steve Gutenberg in battle, which is a clear violation of the Geneva Convention.
Shh...not so loud! The military is probably planning to outsource the manufacture of these robots to China.
Well thanks for keeping me up the rest of the night you insensitive clod!
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You don't even have to jam the signal. I hear if you toss a hat on their plunger it'll completely neutralize them.