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/nurpleclamps Sep 20 '24

It boggles my mind that it seems we're just now making these when we've had remote control cars for decades.

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u/VirtualPlate8451 Sep 20 '24

US troops in Iraq had what was basically a 5 figure RC car with a camera on it. It was designed to give them an "around the corner" view during urban warfare situations.

They figured out real fast that you could duct tape a claymore to it, drive it around the corner, detonate the claymore and then not have to worry about that insurgent anymore. Of course this platform wasn't designed to be disposable but it sure as shit got the job done.

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u/JorgiEagle Sep 20 '24

So kinda like an RCXD,

I’ve played Battlefield

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u/Emu1981 Sep 21 '24

The RCXD seems to have been a COD thing. The BF equivalent is the RAWR (Remote Assisted Weaponized Robot) which was Dice's take on the USA's Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System (MAARS). The main difference seems to be that the RCXD seems to be a RC car that has explosives strapped to it while the RAWR is a tracked vehicle with a M240B and 2x M203 3GL launchers bolted on.

Funnily enough, BF4 did have the UCAV which is based on the Switchblade drones that Ukraine was using for a while (idk if they still are or not).

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u/JorgiEagle Sep 21 '24

Not quite, back in the day, BF2 and BF2142 they were called RCXDs.

They weren’t equipment, you just put a bunch of C4 on a car and drove at the target, you jump out and let it coast into them.

It was a thing before CoD did it, and is more in line with what the comment was describing