Ukraine is set to field its first officially codified domestically built grenade launcher armed ground robot, after the Ministry of Defense approved the Droid NW 40 robotic combat system for service with the country’s Defense Forces, developer DevDroid said on December 23.
Hard to believe these things are effective. Seem relatively vulnerable to small arms fire and even a wet towel.
They are unarguably are, in one recent instance a .50 cal robot obliterated a Russian APC at point blank range, in another one held a position on the frontline for over a month.
Obviously they do not replace humans, but when used in the right ways they are extremely effective.
But we want to replace humans. Very much so.
Every human in the chain between supreme leader and murderbot army is a weak link.
The thing with drones is that people are willing to take basically any risk with them, since you are so far away from the action yourself.
I picture a little wooden catapult throwing ww2 pineapples but I know it’s an 8ga shotgun that fires rockets.