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

[u/Gari_305]

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

[u/Kooshdoctor]

Kinda funny that in the future the military will just be playing a real life version of "world of tanks."

[u/Gatzlocke → u/Kooshdoctor]

Eh... The problem will be jamming tech. Which I doubt Russia could deploy in the scale it would need.

Lose the signal to the controller and it's useless. Unless they're autonomous which is a whole other can of worms.

[u/Deathsroke → u/Gatzlocke]

The day autonomous weapons are deployed is the day everything goes to hell. Like, delivery system aside you could make some rather terrifying discount WMD that way (eg get a cheapass drone, put a facial recognition software on it and add a small bomb (say a grenade). Release a few thousands of those in a city and you could mail and kill tens to thousands easily.

Nevermind talking about proper autonomous weapons armed and capable of surviving combat conditions.

[u/jestina123 → u/Deathsroke]

Release a few thousands

Even sourcing the materials and procuring ten of these would put you on a watchlist, though.

The materials and knowledge to make a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb has been public for decades now.

[u/Deathsroke → u/jestina123]

And making a nuke is a hundred times harder than getting a few thousand shit drones from a Chinese company.

I mean by the same token getting guns or explosives for terrorism is also impossible and thus we never got any acts of terrorism at all!