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[quote name="Chairman Mao"][quote name="E. L. Koba"]I'm not sure the infantry (or the human tankers for that matter) will be too keen on working in close quarters with a AI controlled machines with large weapons. Do you really want Superfly and Mikiko to be your backup when your life is on the line?[/quote] <a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/arsenal_ship.htm">Everyone</a> except the <a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ucav.htm">Air Force</a> remains pretty squeamish about handing over the trigger to machines just yet. They would be semi-autonomous, not AI. Supposedly they would be able to manuver, but firing would still be human-controlled. [quote]At least with human operators, if your radio is jammed or broken you can waive (we still learn all our hand and arm signals for everything), or, god forbid, get of your tank to go talk to someone. They don't just default to crush-kill-destroy mode.[/quote] Well, I think its likely that any communications that critical would take the form of UWB, which is, at least for the time being, relatively unjammable. Also: UV lasers: quantum encryptable. Another wise thing might be some kind of recognition ability, so that any armed drones can literally see and recognize the gestures of their commander and friendly soldiers. Its all speculation right now. [quote]I think it's good research, but most of it won't see the light of day. The marines are already using a battalion level drone (Dragon eye?) to scout out ahead of the forward elements. And the 10th mt and Rangers were using the iRobot pakbot dealie in Afganistan also as a scout in the villages. Don't know if they got much use in Iraq though. The problem with any sort of robot is that it's very very very hard to even manuver on the ground compared to the air, and the Army can't dedicate a whole satelite to each drone like the airforce can. One of the Airforces big coups during Iraq was that they managed to fly <b>two</b> predators at the same time! The Army couldn't give a flying fuck about only 2 of anything. They need 200 or 2000.[/quote] That's what the small drones in the FCS are; just small sensor robots. They don't need a satallite for them, actually what the real challenge is is energy density. These things run out of juice pretty quick still. They want to adapt the autonomous Mars rover technology to military sensor robots. [/quote]