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S. Korea Considers Using Armed Robots Along DMZ
Slicker writes "S. Korea and N. Korea (aka the ROK and DPRK, respectively) share the most heavily fortified border that has ever existed. Now the ROK is considering deployment of armed robots." Not expected until sometime in the 2010s. From the article: "Robots with weapons mounted on their frames are each expected to be able to observe from 2 and 1 kilometers during the day and night, respectively, and will have the capability to record voices and take pictures in a 180-degree circle."
That would be the robots in Iraq were tested with those weapons. By us. This is merely part of what gave S. Korea the idea to use robots themselves.
"It takes a very long time to count to 2 in binary." ~'Fourlegged'
Here is a link that describes the Talon robot and the SWORDS project a little more.
EMP works well against electronics, but NOT as well as oceans 11 makes people believe :)
To make a long story short: If the robots are even lightly shielded against emp, you would need to bring it so close that you could just use a normal bomb and get similar results.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Obviously not. That would change pi, not the number of degrees.
"Automated defences are replacable, but our military men and women are not."
since when?
men and woman just cost more and are more dificult to train
No need. Any anti-tank weapon made in last 50 years will do the job. For example, PTRS (designed in 1941) fired a steel-cored 14.5 mm round from a five-round box magazine and could penetrate 25 mm armor at 500 meters. Modern weapons are much more powerful, but even with that PTRS, what is the chance that the robot will recognize a green-painted and green-clothed soldier laying in grass 500 meters away? And what is the chance that the robot wears 25mm armor?
The reason that Japan did not surrender immediately after the bombing of Hiroshima was that it took some time for the central government to realize what had happened. They learned fairly quickly that there had been a major air strike on Hiroshima, but the extent of the damage was not out of proportion to previous air raids on Japanese cities. US bombing had already caused a great deal of damage to major Japanese cities, including Tokyo. Incendiary bombing was very destructive since at the time most buildings were made of wood, bamboo, and paper. The Japanese only realized what had happened when they figured out that all of the damage was caused by a single bomb, which was not immediately obvious.