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It's interesting that they always show the one that have a Machine gun mounted on them.
But as with quadcopter drones, they built all sorts of land vehicles to do supply mission, or so.e made to rescue downed UAVs etc..
There was a youtube video of the drone crew running night resupply mission bringing food, drinks and all sort of things to the soldiers on the front. Using huge multi rotor.
Yeah I would think they'd be more useful for indirect tasks also, like supply logistics and sweeping for mines and tripewires.
Also the ground vehicle pictured has a mounted repeating grenade launcher, rather than a machine gun.
They have an entire arm of the military: the unmanned systems forces.
They are usually low tracked vehicles like the termit or themis. They basically put grenade launchers or an M2 on it. Then either assault positions or park it somewhere to guard. A single person can monitor multiple robots and therefore, they get more front line coverage with less losses and logistics. Also they have an aimbot and actually hit where you aim the crosshair.
For anyone rushing to "It's Terminator 1!" panic, these are all human-controlled. It's the land version of a predator drone, and Russia has them as well.
world of tank was just the tutorial for this.
If only wars could be fought between these, leaving humans out of it.
I'd still prefer gladiatorial flights to the death between politicians.
Then Khamenei would be US president now. I'm not sure if that would be an improvement. But it would have been fun to watch.
"Death to...
...um, hang on a minute"
Edit: Khameni
They had the right spelling ... no correction required.
Whoops! I'm not going to edit my edit but I'm missing an e.
Well it's spelled خامنهای so unless he's specified an English spelling it's a bit flexible.
Or just no war at all so our technological advances actually go towards betterment
I wanna see an army of Sawblazes and Vlad the Impalers.
Just wanna remind everyone that back in Nov 2025 an injured soldier was rescued by a ground drone after spending 33 days behind enemy lines.
Just for the record, kamikaze UGV were used already in WWII.
Those were kamikaze UGV back then. But these are the mobile turrets UGV. They will not try to kill you by certainly destroying themselves. They will try to kill you and remain functional for as long as possible so that they can kill even more. I think that this is an improvement overall.
I know, I was commenting only on the last paragraph of the writeup.
The US SUV-style aggressive-looking headlight ports are a nice touch.
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