Jewish Trained Attack Snakes

[French G.]

Aren't the Izzys testing some sort of robot snake for sniffing out abushes or something?

Yep.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371047887&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

 

Too cool. From the article

Besides recording multimedia, the snake may also be used to carry explosives

Autonomous roving bangalore torpedoes, we're almost there.

[AJ Dual]

Too cool. From the article
Autonomous roving bangalore torpedoes, we're almost there.

I keep saying this is going to be the (nasty) future of warfare, bat-bots, crab-bots, snake-bots, and rat-bots that scurry about, seeking human body temp in IR spectrum, auditory matching of enemy language, ammonia in sweat, or image recognition profiles of vehicles or weapons, or some combination or all of the above. Then they just pop-off and self-destruct with a 1/4lb charge of C4 or Semtex right under your chin, or one of those little copper-disk self-forging penetrators under a vehicle.

And they'll use Wi-Fi-like swarm inteligence and mesh networks to coordinate themselves.

And Indochinastan will someday turn them out by the thousands for the equivalent of $19.95 in 2009 dollars, cash and carry.

Besides the basic soldier survivability and enhanced combat-load, all the more reasons that Natick and DARPA etc. are so interested in power armor. Without it, you'd have to be insane to take an infantry or ground combat MOS in the military within the next twenty years. 

[makattak]

I keep saying this is going to be the (nasty) future of warfare, bat-bots, crab-bots, snake-bots, and rat-bots that scurry about, seeking human body temp in IR spectrum, auditory matching of enemy language, ammonia in sweat, or image recognition profiles of vehicles or weapons, or some combination or all of the above. Then they just pop-off and self-destruct with a 1/4lb charge of C4 or Semtex right under your chin, or one of those little copper-disk self-forging penetrators under a vehicle.

And they'll use Wi-Fi-like swarm inteligence and mesh networks to coordinate themselves.

And Indochinastan will someday turn them out by the thousands for the equivalent of $19.95 in 2009 dollars, cash and carry.

Besides the basic soldier survivability and enhanced combat-load, all the more reasons that Natick and DARPA etc. are so interested in power armor. Without it, you'd have to be insane to take an infantry or ground combat MOS in the military within the next twenty years. 

Sooo, what you're saying is, Mechs are the future?

[roo_ster]

I keep saying this is going to be the (nasty) future of warfare, bat-bots, crab-bots, snake-bots, and rat-bots that scurry about, seeking human body temp in IR spectrum, auditory matching of enemy language, ammonia in sweat, or image recognition profiles of vehicles or weapons, or some combination or all of the above. Then they just pop-off and self-destruct with a 1/4lb charge of C4 or Semtex right under your chin, or one of those little copper-disk self-forging penetrators under a vehicle.

And they'll use Wi-Fi-like swarm inteligence and mesh networks to coordinate themselves.

And Indochinastan will someday turn them out by the thousands for the equivalent of $19.95 in 2009 dollars, cash and carry.

Besides the basic soldier survivability and enhanced combat-load, all the more reasons that Natick and DARPA etc. are so interested in power armor. Without it, you'd have to be insane to take an infantry or ground combat MOS in the military within the next twenty years. 

Assumes networking & C4ISR infrastructure.  Such is easier said than done.  And COTS HW & SW ain't gonna cut it.

For example, Boeing tried a relatively simple C4ISR execution using COTS software that failed spectacularly at the border.  I could have told them that before they wasted millions.

Without such, they are un-networked mobile smart mines and useful only as area denial to all sides...including those that sent them, because the likelihood the bots can tell friend from foe with on-board resources is very small.

Sooo, what you're saying is, Mechs are the future?

No.  Big metal boxes, on wheels or legs, will be easy to see & kill. 

[Gowen]

There was a movie that came out in the 80's or early 90's, Gene Simmons was the bad guy in the move.  It was set in the future, smart bullets that shot around corners, robots that tracked a car and blew it up.  I can't remember the name, but it sounds like what you describe.

found it:

Runaway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_%281984_film%29

[El Tejon]

Never pay retail for your snakes!

[RaspberrySurprise]

Sooo, what you're saying is, Mechs are the future?

Not mechs, power armor. Think Mobile Infantry.

[bedlamite]

Not mechs, power armor. Think Mobile Infantry.

[AJ Dual]

Assumes networking & C4ISR infrastructure.  Such is easier said than done.  And COTS HW & SW ain't gonna cut it.

For example, Boeing tried a relatively simple C4ISR execution using COTS software that failed spectacularly at the border.  I could have told them that before they wasted millions.

Without such, they are un-networked mobile smart mines and useful only as area denial to all sides...including those that sent them, because the likelihood the bots can tell friend from foe with on-board resources is very small.

No.  Big metal boxes, on wheels or legs, will be easy to see & kill. 

C4ISR and (defense) COTS software for the current crop of network mines is way over-thinking it. By WiFi and mesh networks and swarm behavior, I'm thinking of self emergent behaviors through a basic heirarchy of rules. If you've seen the cooperative behavior exhibited in college robotics labs of little boxes playing soccer etc. or forming together to make a snake or a bigger robot etc. Replace that with "move towards the interesting thing that's tripping #4321's sensors and blow up" behavior, and about 10-20 years of advancments (and miniaturization) on Boston Dynamic's "Big Dog".

My cellphone can recognize my voice. My wife's laptop (and some children's toys) have basic facial recognition security software in them running from cheap web/phone quality cameras... These will be COTS single-chip solutions oneday soon.

These things will be deployed by people who don't care if they can turn them off or recall them, or even get status updates from them. When used by people willing to blow themselves up to get at us right now, the "off switch" won't be so important to them.

Also, it'll be a quantity game. When the moving mine is mainly just a Chi-Com mass produced "furby" circa 2029, with 1/4lb of C4 in it, they'll be able to scatter to thousands of them.

Battlemechs will not happen, that'll definitely be a bullet magnet for sure. Although the various defense agencies definitely have a hard-on for powered armor/exoskeletons.

[RaspberrySurprise]

Zergmines.

[French G.]

Don't worry, all our killbots will be windows based so the upper echelon can figure out how to run them. Misss a software update or two and they'll all de-activate. Or maybe a new version will be released and it won't be able to talk to the old bots to dis-arm them.

Off to think up a Steve Jobs, killer Irobot joke...

[seeker_two]

http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/800/800069/transformers-autobots-20070628060831054.jpg

I'm a Mac........................................................and I'm a PC.....

[MechAg94]

In addition, PA media has accused Israel of unleashing anti-Arab “super rats” in Jerusalem.

Did someone say "super rats"?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/07/giant.rat.papua/index.html

[Iapetus]

From what I've understood, rumours just like the one posted and even MORE sillier are extremely common in the Middle East. Wasn't there rumours about how US soldiers in Iraq were wearing X-ray glasses in order to peek at the locals through their clothes?

Don't forget the rumour about the British Army unleashing man-eating badgers in Basra.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm

[red headed stranger]

Don't forget the rumour about the British Army unleashing man-eating badgers in Basra.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm

Badgers?  They don't need no steenking badgers. 

[Viking]

Don't forget the rumour about the British Army unleashing man-eating badgers in Basra.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm

Hah, I HAD forgotten about that one. Thanks for reminding me .

[seeker_two]

Don't forget the rumour about the British Army unleashing man-eating badgers in Basra.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm

Not to worry.....El Tejon showed us that badgers can be trapped in basements by Chee-Tos and WoW servers....