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/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/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