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The article calls this a "Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle armed with a machine gun" and the headline calls it a "Ukrainian Combat Robot". Not a "drone" like the submitter's title has.
Edit: it seems like the creator calls it a "droid". Is that just them, or is that becoming standard terminology for a kind of ground-based "soldier-robot"? See:
We really are trying our best to make Terminator reality aren't we?
Maybe drones will make human soldiers unacceptable in the future.
If the people fought before they'll keep fighting, even after their robots are gone.
Are these called drones? I thought drones flew. The article calls this a "Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle armed with a machine gun" and the headline calls it a "Ukrainian Combat Robot". Not a "drone" like the submitter's title has. Edit: it seems like the creator calls it a "droid". Is that just them, or is that becoming standard terminology for a kind of ground-based "soldier-robot"? See: https://devdroid.tech/en/…
Why? Isn't the advantage that it can stay in a position indefinitely? Does it not have infrared cameras, etc?
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Maybe drones will make human soldiers unacceptable in the future.
“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.” ― Richard Jordan Gatling, 1877
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse#Non-nucl...
I’ve been wondering when modern battlefields would get Team Fortress 2 sentries.
This smells more like military propagand, i.e., bullshit. There is no way this is honest or real, i.e., it somehow fought off a tactical unit trying to take the frontline that this drone was holding? Or was it just parked in some area where there was no tactical point of even taking the territory? Just by virtue of its nature, a single drone and/or a well placed dumb grenade, not even to mention likely a smoke grenad…
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Perhaps in the dead man zone, not sure this would work well where there is civilian population.
I haven’t heard “dead man zone” (although I don’t really engage much with military stuff so maybe it is just an expression I’m not familiar with). I think “no man’s land” is a pretty popular and similar expression. Out of curiosity, did you translate “dead man zone” from another language? I just find it interesting because it seems conceptually similar but much bleaker, so if it comes from, like, French or German or…
Good article on what it is: https://texty.org.ua/projects/116021/20-kilometers-of-the-gr...
Why is no one using EMP devices against drones? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse#Non-nucl...