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> Now if they're sniping you from a mile away, that's a bit worse. Humans snipers regularly make kills at that distance or farther, so that's not really a new
by ansible 5y ago
> Now if they're sniping you from a mile away, that's a bit worse.
Humans snipers regularly make kills at that distance or farther, so that's not really a new threat.
I'd be more worried about the development of supersonic AGMs that are smaller and cheaper. Right now, it doesn't make much economic sense to fire a $10K USD missile to kill random people (though the USA does it anyway), but if it only costs $1K... now you're starting to get to WMD levels of murder.
- bserge 5y agoYeah but I reckon these kind of robots won't be deployed strictly against human snipers. The average enemy won't have the skill nor equipment to retaliate against long range, rapid fire sniping. A robot, maybe with drone support, could be really accurate at launching grenades or unguided mortar rounds. Or hell, attach it to an artillery gun. Much cheaper than missiles.