Robot Army

Rhiannon14

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/humanoids/sarcoss-exoskeleton-is-more-amazing-than-we-thought-326128.php?autoplay=true

Here come the Borg :eek:

Dub13

We are way ahead of you on the Military Forum....;)

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leninbenjamin

yeah the american's have some ridiculously amazing projects in the works... from using light emitting materials to "cloak" soldiers similar to a video game to genetically modifying goats so their milk contains the proteins found in spiders silk so they can use them to create lightweight armour or some ****...

if you can think it up, they are doing it.

Dave!

Blasted civilians!

leninbenjamin wrote: »

if you can think it up, they are doing it.

Training eagles to transport soldiers across difficult terrain? Didn't think so.

Although I suppose they're not going to tell us about all their secret weapons. The media nearly caught onto their Man-Eating Badger program (codename: BADGE), but they denied involvement.

Gotta keep your cards close to your chest in this day and age, can't have the Russians trumping the badgers with something even more dangerous. The Indian Intelligence Agency are already training monkeys to work as assassins. Their first mission was a success.

One of these days Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be sitting in his office reading the morning paper, and a monkey will swing in through the window and eat his FACE!

Manic Moran

leninbenjamin wrote: »

yeah the american's have some ridiculously amazing projects in the works... from using light emitting materials to "cloak" soldiers similar to a video game

In fairness, the British are leading in this one. They unveiled an invisible tank last month. Or they claim to have, nobody actually saw it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306678,00.html

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490669&in_page_id=1770

NTM

Rhyme

The one thing missing from the exoskeleton video was the soldier using the added strength to punch through a brick wall.

Also, OMG Robocop.

KTRIC

To be honest we're all pretty f**ked if the US army get their hand on this suit. Nothing could stop an army kitted with that stuff..... :eek:


Well maybe a Platoon of GM Super Honey Badgers

humbert

Such a waste putting that sort of innovation to military use.

Manic Moran

Like almost every other military technology, it will be adapted for civilian use. After the military spends all the cash sorting out the bugs.

NTM

Overheal

everything (nearly) goes to military use before civilian use. Simple facts. Examples: GPS, Nuclear Power, Jet Propulsion, etc. etc.

Let the military prototype it. eventually it will be commercial as hell. Dockloaders, construction EXOs, etc. etc. possibilities are endless: if they can miniaturize the technology theres no limit.

think Ironman: http://www.ironmanmovie.com <-- firther off yet but cmon.... how long would it honestly take?

KTRIC

KTRIC wrote: »

To be honest we're all pretty f**ked if the US army get their hand on this suit. Nothing could stop an army kitted with that stuff..... :eek:


Well maybe a Platoon of GM Super Honey Badgers

I'm pretty sure other armies would come up with something similar to combat that.

humbert

Manic Moran wrote: »

Like almost every other military technology, it will be adapted for civilian use. After the military spends all the cash sorting out the bugs.

NTM

I suppose that's true. It's difficult for me to understand how they can pump such vast sums of money into projects like that, with primary uses such as being able to load missiles or support heavy armour. It seams very childish when you consider how useful it could be to the fire services for clearing debris from an accident scene just for example.

Manic Moran

And doubtless that will be one of the uses to which it will be put, once all the development costs have been squared away.

It just happens that the military tends to have the development budget, and the fire services just have a procurement budget. I don't think it really matters from the fire service's point of view who pays for the development as long as it's not yet in an affordable and practical condition for usage. It also helps that these are generally developments by private companies, and they will target the people with the biggest pocket books first. They could probably sell a hundred thousand of these things to the military, but maybe only tens of thousands to civilian agencies.

NTM

Overheal

yeah seriously: think about WWI in regards to bunker/trench warfare - and flamethrowers. Who do you think got the benefit of improvements in flame resistance first? Huh?

humbert

Manic Moran wrote: »

It just happens that the military tends to have the development budget, and the fire services just have a procurement budget. I don't think it really matters from the fire service's point of view who pays for the development as long as it's not yet in an affordable and practical condition for usage. It also helps that these are generally developments by private companies, and they will target the people with the biggest pocket books first. They could probably sell a hundred thousand of these things to the military, but maybe only tens of thousands to civilian agencies.

NTM

That's my point, the military have the development budget. The civilian applications, though numerous and of great benefit, are incidental. I could understand it if invasion was imminent or the domestic situation was rosy but it just seems crazy to me.

psilocin

Who the hell wants their freedom defended by the firebrigade? I want to be assured that democracy is being spread by these financial black holes. So many promises have been made and broken in the past...

Pigman II

Yeah that's all well and good, but where is the robot that can kill defenceless little brown people 10 times quicker??

Terry

Pigman II wrote: »

Yeah that's all well and good, but where is the robot that can kill defenceless little brown people 10 times quicker??

I'm sure it's in the works.

As soon as that Iraqi oil is gone, they'll hit Nigeria.