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America's Robot Army
Popular Mechanics explores the increasing level of reliance the US military has when it comes to robotic assistance. In the last few years, robot drones have reached an all-new level of sophistication, with several models already deployed in the field. Now, the next generation of robot helpers is nearing the end of its test phase. PM offers up a preview of what we could expect to see in the field within the next five years. "The MULE (Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment) is roughly the size of a Humvee, but it has a trick worthy of monster truck rallies. Each of its six wheels is mounted on an articulated leg, allowing the robot to clamber up obstacles that other cars would simply bump against ... Barely a year old, the prototype is a product of the Army's Unmanned Ground Vehicle program, which began in 2001. It has yet to fire a single bullet or missile, or even be fitted with a weapon. Here at the test track it's loaded down with rucksacks and boxes, two squads' worth of equipment."
More weapons.
Good one, America. Nice to see those sessions with the shrink are working.
you had me at #!
How are these trite statements related to the article at hand? maybe you can tell me how "false intel" relates to Afghanistan? I didn't think so.
And you do know that guerilla/insurgencies don't have occurred without foreign invasions.
I love how the military articles on slashdot get the usual peacenik comments get modded up first. This stuff is just plainly offtopic and quite redudant. If you don't like military tech, get the fuck out and move on. All these hippie-dippie comments don't add anything new.
Even many who are against the Iraq invasion still support going into Afghanistan. And it is an article on military tech.
Why would you care, you're probably part of the islamic 5th column anyway.
Without arguing on whether the above "donts" apply to our most recent Iraq invasion, is there — in your opinion — ever a situation, when wrongs committed by a country's government justify invasion aiming at correcting those wrongs?
That's how you discourage them. To fight them you chase them, sink their ships, and hang the captured ones along the shores. Add drawing-and-quartering to taste... Sometimes I really wish we could apply these methods to the guerrilla assholes, but I don't think we can any more... The risk of mistakingly killing an innocent person is just too high for a modern conscience.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.