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It begins - First land-based combat robots entering Iraq next year

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NLB2

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That's obviously The Right of Spring by Stravinsky. The second section of the first part when there are these huge chords throughout the almost the entire orchestra and its just a series of eigth notes with random ones accented.
 

Boogie

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:lol

I seriously wonder WTF is wrong with someone who types in "doo do doo" like he expects us to know what tune he's supposed to be typing.
 

Ryo

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It has really got to suck to face one of these robots. With humans at least you know that the enemy is quite scared too. Gotta be hard to face an enemy that don't take cover, just blast you.
 

xabre

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Couldn't insurgents just run in from the side and push them over? Also, how do they differentiate between American troops and insurgents, do they have 'freedom' programming or something? And what if the insurgents capture one and reprogram it to fight for them, or better yet turn it into a jukebox on wheels to play verses of the Koran in the midst of battle? So many stupid and fun questions can come from this :)
 

Phoenix

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xabre said:
Couldn't insurgents just run in from the side and push them over? Also, how do they differentiate between American troops and insurgents, do they have 'freedom' programming or something? And what if the insurgents capture one and reprogram it to fight for them, or better yet turn it into a jukebox on wheels to play verses of the Koran in the midst of battle? So many stupid and fun questions can come from this :)


Guys please RTFA :) They aren't autonomous - only semiautonomous. They receive their direction and firing orders from soldiers who are using them at nearly remote controlled gun turrets.
 

tenchir

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I wonder how tough are these robots are in a direct firefight. I understand that the armor on it can stop most conventional bullets from guns, but what about grenades and rocket launchers?
 

Jeffahn

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Al-Queda have just announced their 'Battletech's':

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Phoenix

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tenchir said:
I wonder how tough are these robots are in a direct firefight. I understand that the armor on it can stop most conventional bullets from guns, but what about grenades and rocket launchers?

A nice shaped RPG round blows the crap out of an HUMVEE and can do severe damage to an APC so I would imagine they would get the shit blown out of them :)
 

sc0la

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Wouldn' you like to be a pepper too?

your mother was a snowblower

Phoenix said:
Guys please RTFA :)
Have I been away long enough to miss acronym spawning, or was this one on the fly? ;)
 
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