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Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot
Hiawatha writes "iRobot has teamed up with Boston University to create a robot that can spot enemy snipers on a battlefield. Before the smoke of the shot clears away, the REDOWL robot should have the shooter in its sights." iRobot is the same company that brought you the popular Roomba robotic vacuum.
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"Her car stalled as she tried to flee the approaching troops. She thought banging on the carburator might help, but the anti-sniper robot accidentally blew her away. Whoops."
"Apparently he never even noticed the approaching troops, but he was watching a detective movie and smoking a cigarette, and the anti-sniper robot combined them into a sniper and shot up the apartment."
Ain't 'war science' wonderful?
Meanwhile, the actual snipers will figure out better methods.
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You see, for the case in Iraq at the moment their fighters are culturally influenced by Asian and Steppe fighting methods (the history of this stems from Sun Tzu and other cultural writings being moved along the Silk Road and also from Mongol invasions) which posits that running away is in fact winning in their mindset. Culturally influenced my ass. The mostly Arab fighters who inhabit the Iraqi battlefields use whatever Islamic mythology suits them at the moment, be it Mongol, Moorish, or Arab. Of the 50% of them who can read, I doubt they know who Sun Tzu is other than an infidel. Islam is about conquering and humiliation, not running away. Furthermore, if what you say is true, then the 'insurgents's support base would be much larger. They would be winning after all.