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Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops
Lucas123 writes "This past week at Ft. Benning, weaponized robot prototypes from four robotics companies — Northrop Grumman, HDT Robotics, iRobot Corp. and QinetiQ — demonstrated their abilities to traverse rugged terrain, fire machine guns and take out pop-up targets from a distance of 150 meters. 'They're not just tools, but members of the squad. That's the goal,' said Lt. Col. Willie Smith, chief of Unmanned Ground Vehicles at Fort Benning. For example, the Northrup Grumman's CaMEL (Carry-all Mechanized Equipment Landrover) can run for 24 hours on three-and-a-half gallons of fuel, and can be equipped with a grenade launcher, an automatic weapon and anti-tank missiles. The CaMEL also can identify targets from three-and-a-half kilometers away, using a daylight telescope or thermal imaging. The robots have also demonstrated their ability to be air dropped behind enemy lines or into remote terrain."
It means most people today not only aren't veterans but don't even know one.
In the current time of the all-volunteer armed forces, most veterans are people
from the lower strata of society ( or idiots from a higher strata ) so there's not
much point in "knowing" a veteran.
I walked point outside of Da Nang, after I was drafted into the army.
So I know what walking point is. But I also know what a loser who joins
the army because it's the only job he or she can get is, and in most cases
these people are ignorant uneducated dopes who aren't worth knowing.
By the way, fuck your "patriotism" in advance. A real patriot knows the US .2% ( for example, the
needs to quit messing around in other countries when those countries have
not attacked the US. It is a waste of resources and there are far more efficient
means by which to secure access to the resources which are the reason the US
is messing around in those countries to begin with ( as you know if you are not an
idiot ). All this crap about "Al Quaeda" is just a lame bullshit LIE and excuse to get
morons to go along with the game plan hatched by the
Project for a New American Century ).