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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. Good News in War Against China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    The Chinese have low regard for human life and would be willing to throw millions of soldiers to their death against the Americans in any war. The scenario would be like a human wave, and the idea is for the wave to overwhelm our forces.

    These machine-gun robots is the perfect answer to a Chinese wave attack. I could imagine them being amphibious. On a fine morning like 2006 December 7, millions of them would rise up out of the ocean tide and onto the beaches of China. They would march relentless across China, killing all the Chinese soldiers.

    The final destination would be Tibet.

    As that old Negro spiritual goes, "Free at last [for Tibet]. [Buddha] all mighty! Free at last!"

  2. US Army can have the most sophisticated tech ever by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · · Score: 1, Troll

    They're still going to fuck up and shoot their allies by mistake

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

    This is /. , where a portion of the posters think that everything the US Military does is evil and that anything that helps them is wrong.

    They are unable to thing things thru...

  4. They are terrorists. by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Troll

    When they torture, kill, and behead AID WORKERS because they do not like them they ARE TERRORISTS an no playing with words will change that.

    1. Re:They are terrorists. by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Troll

      And why are they in Iraq? Oh yeah, the 'religious' leaders who are leading the iraqis asked them to come...

  5. Re:Not so bad... by DAldredge · · Score: 1, Troll

    It doesn't bother you that a country that has threatened to nuke Israel off the map is working on nuclear weapons? Most, if not all, of the current countries that have nuclear weapons are sane when it comes to there use - Iran and N Korea do not fall into that catagory.

    Perhaps you should read up on how they do things in Iran before you support them having nukes.

  6. Re:Not so bad... by grumbel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Better thousands of ours then tens/hundred of thousands of the others. If one dead soldier of ours can save ten dead on the other side then its worth it. Military is already droping bombs on places without checking first what exactly is going on there and thus bombing a wedding every once in a while. And all that just because they didn't want to risk a few soldiers.

  7. US Cowardice by Triskele · · Score: 1, Troll
    So now the USA can exercise its cowardice to even greater levels. With high altitude bombers and cruise missiles they've been able to kill in safety for a while but now they'll be able to do it on the ground as well.

    Just how many more innocent people do they intend to murder to maintain their suv-loving lifestyle? Iraqis are currently paying 30:1 in lives for Sept 11th and Iraq had nothing to do with it.

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