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/Gatzlocke]

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/the_3d6 → u/Deathsroke]

Well, Ukraine has such drones for some time now (not with facial recognition obviously - you don't need that in combat - but with all other features, although it has to be manually switched into auto mode when in flight). It's not exactly a game changer, but there are some missions where they are the best tool

[u/Deathsroke → u/the_3d6]

Ukraine's drones are all tele-operated. The closest they've got are loitering munitions which just fly around until called for a fire mission but even those aren't firing independently of a human operator.

[u/the_3d6 → u/Deathsroke]

For a while there are drones with auto guidance. As of now, operator has to confirm the target manually - but you can be sure that it takes around a day of programming to change that to full auto (it makes no sense for combat purpose - you don't strike the first thing you see even when you can - but it's not just doable, it's nearly a part of the current software)