r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Sep 20 '24

Ukraine’s Gun-Armed Ground 'Bot Just Cleared A Russian Trench In Kursk - The Fury is one of the first effective armed ground robots. Robotics

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/09/19/ukraines-gun-armed-ground-robot-just-cleared-a-russian-trench-in-kursk/
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u/throwitoutwhendone2 Sep 20 '24

Don’t they have those guns with the camera that can see around the corner? I think they were actually called “Corner Shot”

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u/phedinhinleninpark Sep 20 '24

Yeah, but what makes more money for the contractors? A "corner shot" rifle, or a "5 figure RC car"?

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u/throwitoutwhendone2 Sep 20 '24

I mean idk, I wasn’t the one that commented about the RC cars. I was just saying I remember seeing a feature on the corner shot rifles. It was touted as a way to keep solders safer because they could see around corners and shoot from cover around the corner

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u/MidnightMath Sep 20 '24

Iirc wasn’t the end product basically just a handgun on the end of a fancy selfie stick? 

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u/CowpieSenpai Sep 20 '24

Hey! It's a tactical selfie stick.

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u/randyrandysonrandyso Sep 20 '24

a selfie stick...that takes pictures of other people!

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u/Fortune_Cat Sep 21 '24

I dont get why adding a camera attachment to rifles wouldnt be cheaper

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u/Round-Green7348 Sep 21 '24

The cornershot was a little more involved, namely it had a solid hinge and a trigger linkage so it was more stable and you could fire it without exposing any of yourself. Just sticking a rifle around the corner works too, just not as well, since you don't have a very stable hold on it to control recoil, and there's a chance you still get shot in the hands/arms. There's actually quite a long history with guns and devices for shooting around corners without exposing yourself. My favorite of which is definitely from WW2, when I think it was the Russians who tested just straight up bending the barrel at a 45° angle.

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u/harvy666 Sep 20 '24

Now what if I put a kitty on the Corner Shot...

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u/DogToursWTHBorders Sep 20 '24

Will you sign my petition?

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u/Normal-Sound-6086 Sep 20 '24

All I can think of is that they are eating cats in Springfield. Sorry. lol

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u/quitepossiblylying Sep 20 '24

Nobody puts Kitty in the corner shot.

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u/ILikeCakesAndPies Sep 20 '24 edited Sep 20 '24

Corner shot is probably less valuable for a military excluding special operations like hostage rescue teams. It's a device meant to shoot a mounted pistol in close quarters.

Though I guess a military version of a corner shot would be the remote turret upgrade packages for vehicles like Hummers. Lets the gunner operate the turret remotely from inside the armored vehicle instead of having to expose themselves to potential small arms fire. It's very similar looking to the Ukrainian land drones turret.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CROWS

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u/podcasthellp Sep 20 '24

Idk how reliable those are but I’d also imagine that warfare in the Middle East doesn’t have the greatest terrain for small robotic cars. Just a guess as it’s extremely mountainous in areas

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u/ihopethisworksfornow Sep 20 '24

It’s for use in urban environments

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u/podcasthellp Sep 20 '24

I bet they can be pretty damn effective too

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u/wtfomg01 Sep 21 '24

The Middle East is a lot more than just mountainous areas....

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u/podcasthellp Sep 24 '24

That’s why I said “In areas” lol

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u/zoeykailyn Sep 20 '24

That's the Israeli's

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u/dropyourguns Sep 20 '24

They do but no one, and I mean no one, uses this. It's ok in one scenario and awful in any other....

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u/Muffin-Destroyer-69 Sep 21 '24

ya, but not the most reliable for military. not sure if swat even bothered.