What are the Strategic and Tactical implications of Big Land Robots (also humanoid ones) being introduced into the field of warfare?
>>65268489Drones in general means war would become more frequent, yet battlefield casualties would go down. Once every nation transitions to drones, war will turn into a quasi-ritualistic thing, almost like a sport. Countries that have a beef with each other will issue a batchall and field their drones on some uninhabited defined field to duke it out. The winner gets what he claims. No humans will get injured or killed.
>>65269271Nigger come on, use your brain. You really think the losing side wouldn't start handing out rifles to regular infantry once their ground combat drones got destroyed? The reason why offensive wars force political action is not because of some kind of honor system, it's because once the defenders' military has been routed, the only way to stop the wanton destruction of civilian populace and industries is to surrender and hope they accept. And you can bet your ass that every tinpot dictator on earth is going to send grandpa to the front lines with a rifle in his hands before he hands over his capital peacefully.
>>65268489If you can't fuck it what's the point?
>>65268489does anyone have that pic from some military parade (i want to say it was russia but not sure) of a soldier siting on top of a UGV with a MANPADS?
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>>65268489>What are the Strategic and Tactical implications of Big Land Robots (also humanoid ones) being introduced into the field of warfare?You can put more bodies in the maneuver team while your support by fire is run remotely by a skeleton crew. Maybe. Someone still has to physically rearm and refuel the thing even if the operator is in a bunker somewhere. But either way hauling heavy weapons to the objective is less of a physical burden. The day you can fully remote the infantry is the day the arm finally gets a chance to become progressively better at their job the longer the war goes on like the support personnel do. Until then by the second or third year your highly trained pre-war professional forces will have been ground down into a mediocre mix of "good enoughs" with four weeks of training and enough luck not to die in the first 15 hours.
>>65269271Drone war means that instead of sending the poor to die the first people to die are the elite due to decapitation strikes, which is kind of funny when you think about it
>>65268489The value of the underclass is going to plummet to zero since infantry is the only job in the modern world where plebs are in high demand.
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>>65270116can't wait for putin and bibi to get droned desu
the name of the game is stand off, you'll never shoot at anyone directly ever again
>>65268489>implying implicationsAutomated tanks would mean:>whoever's making them has both survived the general economic crunch AND has resources left over to mass-manufacture tanks>they also have the wealth to stomach current year or worse RAM pricing if their AI for the tank is any good>the tank will need to be next gen with an APS, cuz no one wants "M1A2/Chally/Leopard/T90 but more expensive">this also implies a willingness to automate defense, as in replacing real soldiers the way they replace pilots with drones>additionally, it implies future conflicts that require heavy use of armor (and loss rates that exceed acceptable standards for manned tanks)Future's fucked.
>>65268489Unmanned ground vehicles are here to stay. The US has had CWIS turrets at their FOB shooting down mortars for a decade. Ukraine has what you are showing. They're only becoming more common and more capable.
>>65268489Postin' the robuts I got in my /k/ folder
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>>65271874this would be fucked the moment it drove over a small stone and it got stuck in the wheel
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