Robot soldiers bound for Iraq!
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4199935.stm

Nifty idea if it saves some casualties.

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Looks like a brick could cause a lot of damage !

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I'm sure it's been ruggedised especially for that kind of thing. I used to work for GEC Marconi on the defence side of things and it's surprising the lengths gone to for everything. The specs on the invitations to tender go on for pages about the environments/conditions things are expected to work in.

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Plus has the added bonus of making killing, more like an arcade game. Thus cutting down on the psychological stress that soldiers have to indure, post combat.

IMHO, both a good thing, and a bad thing. If rich nations can attack poor nations with robots guided by human intelligence, then war (for the rich) becomes less expensive.

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;) Thats all I'm saying :D

I expect that product has had the best engineers from this country working on it :D

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You could con a load of 16 year olds into buying these new "gameboys" and invade a small country using them as the main force, without them even knowing!

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And I've always fancied being dictator of my own country....... :devsmoke:

Any of the regular gamers on the forum fancy a robot led coup in an oil rich African nation. I'm sure I can find well paying jobs for anyone who helps out. ;) :angel:

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With that new gadjet does it mean the USA wont be killing more UK troops in friendly fire.?

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Is anyone else thinking Cyberdyne Systems Model 1...?!

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or Terminator....the bots are after us......arggghh its the googlebot complete with gmail spamming invites..and argggghhhh popunders....flee..

Okay I have had wayyy to much caffeine.

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I was thinking more along the lines of ED-209 :)

I'd love to see Zarqawi's face when presented with ol'd ED (assuming he hasn't been arrested yet of course)

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Why not? We already have a UK military communications satelite network called Skynet :rolleyes: (seriously!)

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4 Hours battery life????

not very much is it

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:rolleyes:

thought the US already used 'robots'

and those naff whitewall hair jobs after they've had their brain removed at 'roboot' camp

/:rolleyes:

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Never stopped the kids in Belfast and Derry sneaking up behind the bomb disposal ones and switching em off though. That and stoneing the poor sod that had to go and switch it back on again used to keep the buggers entertained for ages. :(