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DARPA shows off an autonomous tank

submitted by Spaceman84 to technology 2 weeksApr 28, 2024 22:57:51 ago (+20/-0)     (archive.is)

https://archive.is/2024.04.28-171255/https://www.techspot.com/news/102769-darpa-unleashes-20-foot-autonomous-robo-tank-glowing.html



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[ - ] Fascinus 4 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 00:59:50 ago (+4/-0)

[ - ] dass 2 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 04:26:40 ago (+2/-0)

Wow, 20 years and this DERPA program has gone from 'testing' autonomous cars on a desert road to 'testing' tracked vehicles off-road.
how much tax payer billions was siphoned off for this circle jerk.

[ - ] SmallGuyFromBrooklyn 2 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 09:13:28 ago (+2/-0)

When you look at China, it seems their advances are pretty good: they have mesh systems that connect devices. Sure, the quality may be shit, but its cheap and easy to manufacture. Also, for the most part tanks have become obsolete in the war game, so what even was the point of this?

[ - ] dass 0 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 16:11:40 ago (+0/-0)

IKR, seems a perfect excuse for a budget black hole to leech tax payer money. 20 years and this is where they're at.
Wonder how many $90 000 bushings they went through?.

[ - ] Kozel 2 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 00:25:30 ago (+2/-0)

how effective will paintballs be against it?

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 2 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 01:52:38 ago (+2/-0)

Depends on how well you can hit a 2" target on a continuously moving platform before it deletes you and the hill you're on from existence. And it looks like you'll have to do it 6+ times, depending on how well the radar works once the visual sensors go down.

[ - ] Kozel 2 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 01:57:08 ago (+2/-0)

you're right. I make new question.

How effective will drones with paintbuckets or spraypaint be?

Just a drone circle strafing the thing with a spraypaint can

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 2 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 01:58:25 ago (+2/-0)

Now you're starting to get it. Modern kinetic warfare is going to be wild and techno-jank.

[ - ] Fascinus 1 point 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 01:08:23 ago (+1/-0)

[ - ] Cantaloupe 1 point 2 weeksApr 28, 2024 23:46:00 ago (+1/-0)

The eyes make it cool

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz 0 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 00:44:16 ago (+0/-0)

nah its creepy and its on purpose. when the "enemy" sees this thing rolling towards it it will leave him with a psychological impact. that's if he survive that is

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz 0 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 00:42:37 ago (+0/-0)

war robotica (tm)

[ - ] Deplorablepoetry -1 points 2 weeksApr 29, 2024 05:19:33 ago (+0/-1)

WEF will be hunkered down in their bomb-proof bunkers deep in a mountain in Switzerland while these RC tanks hunt down all the remaining humans on the surface thus creating the utopia every hard core communist dreams of.

I fear the war has long ago begun and we are far too late to engage to ever come out victors.

Our only hope is when the war turns hot, someone pulls the plug….., don’t bet on it.