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One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« on: August 26, 2024, 03:27:21 PM »
https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1827685918637211678

Ripsaw M5 Robotic Tank, by Howe & Howe Technologies.

Not sure how it fares against an FPV drone packed with explosives.
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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2024, 04:09:29 PM »
I wonder what its battery life is like.

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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2024, 04:22:50 PM »
I realize part of it is not having a crew cabin, but it seems on the small side for the definition of "tank". I would also wonder if it's lighter in weight to accommodate longer battery life?
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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2024, 04:28:15 PM »
I realize part of it is not having a crew cabin, but it seems on the small side for the definition of "tank". I would also wonder if it's lighter in weight to accommodate longer battery life?

The X post is light on details, but I think it's supposed to be a light tank, not an MBT.
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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2024, 04:32:16 PM »
The X post is light on details, but I think it's supposed to be a light tank, not an MBT.

Yawn. Wake me up when Bolos hit the scene.  =D
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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2024, 09:18:22 AM »
I'm starting to think this AI thing is really a bad idea.   [tinfoil]

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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2024, 09:22:45 AM »
Yawn. Wake me up when Bolos hit the scene.  =D

These are like Bolo's smaller, weaker cousin, running around and yapping at everything.
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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2024, 09:31:21 AM »
Yawn. Wake me up when Bolos hit the scene.  =D
I am waiting on the invention of the Hellbore cannon, and the infinite repeater.

On the other hand, an APC carrying several dozen suicide drones with 5 or 20 lb explosive charges could do a lot of damage.  Add in grenade dropping drones on top of that. 
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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2024, 03:28:40 PM »
I'm starting to think this AI thing is really a bad idea.   [tinfoil]

Look out !
Here comes Skynet !  >:D

Think about this - military hierarchy is at the point where 1 - they are low on overall manpower and 2 - how much does that "hierarchy" trust those under them?
This way they have the tools they "control" (for now) to use against any citizens that have the temerity to object to an over-bearing government.
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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2024, 11:20:54 PM »
I am waiting on the invention of the Hellbore cannon, and the infinite repeater.

On the other hand, an APC carrying several dozen suicide drones with 5 or 20 lb explosive charges could do a lot of damage.  Add in grenade dropping drones on top of that. 

Meh.  Not to worry.  That strategy of spinning around and around in one place for five or ten seconds at a time will counter any artificially intelligent attack methods from drones or otherwise.

It will make any attacking weapon all dizzy so it will faw down and hurted itself.

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Is it possible that our high-ranking hard-nosed no nonsense jaw-jutting square-shouldered military leadership folks are just as susceptible to gimcrackery and advertising frippery as thee and me?

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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2024, 08:50:16 AM »
Yawn. Wake me up when Bolos hit the scene.  =D

They already have.  Remember we didn't start with Durachrome Brigades and Planetary Defense Hellbores.

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The first Bolo ever created, The Mark I Bolo was a modest upgrade to the M1 Abrams. It went into production in the year 2000, by the Bolo Division of General Motors. the Mark I was essentially a 150 tonne conventional tank powered by diesel engines and equipped with various servos and mechanical devices to reduce crew requirements and armed with one turreted 150mm DSFSLRP main gun, as well as some secondary armaments which consisted of several point defense/anti personnel gatling guns. The Mk. I was equipped with on board radar and computerized fire control packages. It relied on a pair of highly efficent, fossil fuel power plants and could reach a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour. It had a crew of four and an approximate weight of 150 metric tons.

Except for mistaking a gas turbine for diesel engines that's an M1A4.  Actually a little less advanced than an M1A4 because we're fielding some AI powered Active Protection Systems on Abrams.

This little scout tanks skips the Mark II bolo (AI on board and one crew member), but given the successful integration of Sensor data, computers and crew in the F35 a one person/computer MBT with AI sensor intigration is probably already being looked at.  The reality will probably be better than a Bolo MkII because Laumer didn't know about things like Helmet mounted displays and cuing systems and advnaced sensor intigration.

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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2024, 09:45:10 AM »
I would also accept a power gun from the Hammer's Slammers series. 
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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2024, 10:05:10 AM »
I want a 20cm Hellbore soooo bad.

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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2024, 01:18:07 PM »
So, have you checked your toaster lately?
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Re: One step closer to Judgment Day ...
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2024, 04:13:32 PM »
So, have you checked your toaster lately?

applause !!  >:D
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