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Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future (www.economist.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

robots, satellites, or for that matter fighter jets or artillery can't hold ground, all these units work in support of infantry. the future belongs to what we already have: combined arms warfare

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

robots...can't hold ground

Maybe not yet. Maybe not even soon. But it will happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e1_QhJ1EhQ

At some point, you're going to have legged robots out there, and that'll start cutting into human advantages in mobility over rugged terrain.

BigDog got rejected by the Marines because it was too loud. But that's not really a fundamental limitation of robotics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigDog

At the end of December 2015, the BigDog project was discontinued. Despite hopes that it would one day work like a pack mule for US soldiers in the field, the gas-powered engine was deemed too noisy for use in combat. A similar project for an all-electric robot named Spot was much quieter, but could only carry 40 pounds (18 kg). Both projects are no longer in progress, but the Spot Mini was released in 2019.[2][11]

That's just a load-bearer. But once you have a platform that's mobile and can go most places a human can, it's gonna get armed pretty quickly.

And it won't happen all at once -- you'll have some humans, some robots. Maybe they just have load-bearers, like what DARPA was interested in BigDog doing. Maybe a robot gets put on point when a squad is patrolling.

But the cost of a human life is pretty high, so there's a pretty potent incentive to consume a robot than a human life if possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It's completely idiotic and against all existing reason to allow a machine to end lives on automatic. I don't think it's going to be allowed and heavily frowned upon kind of like mustard gas

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

robots can't hold ground

Tell that to an auto turret that shoots anyone that approaches it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tell that to the cardboard box crawling its way towards the auto turret because the auto turret doesn't scan it human

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tell that to the robotic dogs who have a heightened sense of robo-smell and can detect the guy hiding inside the cardboard box

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tell that to the perfume that places the dog instantly in debug mode and allows for remote access and subsequent flooding of the controller local net

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Tell that to the special gasmasks the robodogs wear as a countermeasure against the debug mode perfume

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

is that autoturret in the room with us?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

If it was, we'd be dead