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Imagine auto-killing robots on the battlefield. In gamers terms: aimbots and wallhackers with unlimited guns and enormous HP

I imagined this: Computers are fast. No doubt these robots will have IR cameras. Light travels fast. What if an opposing soldier shot at a robot?

A bullet's speed is about 1500 m/s or so, for a fast one. From a 20m distance, that leaves about 13ms for the robot to:
1) do some calculating
2) either fire a bullet that will exactly cross paths with the bullet aimed at it or prepare for a short, concentrated electromagentic pulse that will severely slow the bullet down as it hits the robot, reducing or eliminating damage
3) at the same time, shoot the gunner in the brains.

Might seem like a difficult task to do, but it really isn't and remember, this is the military. They can do anything, they have heaps of R&D money.

So if these killer robots would be deployed, even if only for exploration with self defense or something, soldiers would become useless pretty quickly and would just have to drive the robots around like RC cars.

And once that happens, it's only a matter of time before it becomes a robot fight, with no humans involved in the actual combat. And guess what. That's when China wins the next world war.

Thoughts?

point 2 and 3 can't be done without point 1,.!?
Whot about double shielding,. ;)

And yes china will WIN,.

Heh, what happens when a country stops training enough soldiers, but some country (china?) finds a way to disable all electronics (EMP, anyone?) and just walks in with guns?

Ever heard anyone say that ppl are too dependent on computers?

roberth Wrote:exactly, people are so determined to fight that they won't let this happen
It will be like robots Vs Humans

yeah i agree, its impractical to think robots could take over the entirety of all ground operations, it just wouldn't be cost effective to cover enough area and it could be learned to avoid them (maginot line type thing)
wee don't outfit all of our soldiers with some of the crazier technology wee have because it isn't cost effective; the life of a soldier doesn't really equate to the cost of one of those crazy power suits that are like $30 mil apiece
im sure one of those robots, even if one robot could equal the combat effectiveness of 100 troops, would still be tough to produce...

roberth Wrote:i don't think cost is an issue, humans are just to violent not to go to war/to let someone else go to war

cost is generally the issue i would think