Military Robots - The Future of War

I heard they once spent like a half million dollars to fund an arctic expedition to find out if they needed to defend Earth against alien invaders. It was cancelled because the pilot got sick.

holy god i pronally think that is well interesting i mean taking it from a christian point of veiw lol

It can save millions of lives but the guy is right... i do alot of things in games that i would never do in real life, like kill people. Not seeing the captive from up close could make it alot easier to kill him

this will just make wars more and more like "I have more money so I win" not like old warfare that was actualy about skill and tactics.

Alkanosis wrote:Essentially they are. They're trying to enhance stealth, defense, and robotic automation to make everything deadlier and more effective whilst lowering the casualty rates.

on one side that is.

this is why I prefure the napolionic battles. they were more about the people doing the work rather than the tech. ( navy battles were about tactics and fire power thats why I love sailing)

Exactly! those wars that took millions of people in only a year or so! werent those lovely days... muuuuch worse than the free world (which is the richest at the time) having the technological edge over the rest of the world (china, north korea iran and other wanna be superpower dictatorships) and keeping the world safe.

But seriously, non sentient things blowing eachother up wont hurt anyone. Unlike thousands of people fighting eachother to the death.

And napoleonic battles werent about tactics, it was just put the ships in a battle row and see which one doesnt get blown to pieces. Today's battles are all about tactics and stealth, they're more sophisticated and alot less bloody.

umm. you are thinking about the big battles like trafalgar. I am talking about the little un recorded skirmishes.

yes the new warfare is complex and "steathy" but I think its slightly cowardly

cowardly, maybe but cowardice and such in war is just stupid. It'll get more people killed. It's useful for soldiers that fight on foot but sending several hundred people at eachother is just dumb. It's better to be able t osend a drone to kill those terrorists or whatever

true in terrorisim yes this is a good idea but it has its limits.

well anyway no matyter how advanced the military robots get i garantee humans will still be fighting on the frontline.

and dont forget about the people the hundreds of millions of people that will loose jobs and even worse due to bigger more powerfull weapons thanks to robots millions of people wil loose livees

no... they'll just get more jobs in the new robot manufacturys and the new bigger weapon factorys.

And ALL the robots need at least one guy to control them

Not really. In a few more decades, scientists could actually produce logic centers for their robots. They could fight on their own. Also, If you can direct a large group of robots to do one thing, you only need one man. If war was like a video game, with controllers safely at home, than yes. You would need at least one person for each robotic soldier.

also they will have hq's like in america using sattelites from one hq to controll al the robots

@ Jtull if you like napoleonic battles and have a good computer or can stand bad graphics, you should get empire: total war. It's set in the napoleonic era

lol, i think that looks awsome

It is, but you need to have a good enough computer to set the graphics on high/ medium. Low looks like someone puked on your computer screen though

lol kl mines ok it isnt state of te art but it is vista and it works lol ive got and external hardrive for it with 232 gig left on it