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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2007-08-06 04:15 pm
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Armed ground robots

remotely-operated ground vehicles (robots) with guns are being deployed in Iraq. How'd you like to face down a robot with an M-249 machine gun? Or a grenade launcher? The program calls them "special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action systems" (SWORDS). So far they have not been in a firefight. Yet.
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[identity profile] rmeidaking.livejournal.com 2007-08-06 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Robocop, here we come. How would you like to be pulled over on the freeway by one?

[identity profile] jeffreyab.livejournal.com 2007-08-06 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
BOLOS!

In memory of Keith Laumer.
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[identity profile] netmouse.livejournal.com 2007-08-06 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be impressed. These things are based on the Talon and don't go that fast.
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