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Originally posted by epitaph.one
So to the OP...you would rather have a 24 year old man sent into a building to clear it -- KNOWING -- there are 15 armed enemies inside it, then use a robot?
[edit on 15-5-2009 by epitaph.one]
Originally posted by epitaph.one
So to the OP...you would rather have a 24 year old man sent into a building to clear it -- KNOWING -- there are 15 armed enemies inside it, then use a robot?
Originally posted by aorAki
Originally posted by epitaph.one
So to the OP...you would rather have a 24 year old man sent into a building to clear it -- KNOWING -- there are 15 armed enemies inside it, then use a robot?
I noted that they said SWORD would diminish the numbers of caualties on the front lines. That is only half a truth: Whose casualties will it diminish?
Just what we need, more resources, time, effort and technology spent on killing machines.
A couple of questions:
How 'easy' would it be to take out the cameras, thus rendering it blind?
How does it negotiate obstacles such as trenches etc. I can see the 'insurgents' (freedom fighters?) developing relatively low key defences to this in the way of pits, IEDs etc.
Originally posted by SharkBait
Strong Magnets-The best defense against steel and electronics.
Originally posted by fritz
reply to post by OwlMan[/url]
I guess any potential enemy might as well take a leaf from the Israeli Book of Tactics and do what they did during Yom Kipur - Reconnaissance By Fire!
In order to defeat the Sagger ATGW missiles, the Israeli's fired their GPMGs in any area likely to hide the missile controller.
After refining this tactic, the Israelis discovered that this method worked 9 times out of 10.
So, any relatively modern, equipped and armed soldiers can carry out their own reconnaissance by fire to weed out the operators of these terrifying [ ] machines.
Originally posted by OwlMan So they were using thousands of "9 foot tall 3,500 pound Robots" armed with m-16's and rockets during "Yom Kipur"?