As a counter-drone measure, the army is testing robo-dogs with armed rotating turrets.
Military.Com reports Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Rifles in Middle East
The Army has sent at least one “robot dog” armed with an artificial intelligence-enabled gun turret to the Middle East for testing as a fresh counter-drone capability for U.S. service members, service officials confirmed.
Photos published to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service last week show a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Quadrupedal-Unmanned Ground Vehicle, or Q-UGV, armed with what appears to be an AR-15/M16-pattern rifle on rotating turret undergoing “rehearsals” at the Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center in Saudi Arabia in mid-September as part of a recent counter-unmanned aerial system exercise.
The specialized gun turret, which features a large electro-optical targeting system with “Lone Wolf” emblazoned across the side, appears to be the same “artificial intelligence-enabled” system that the Army recently put through its paces during Operation Hard Kill, a separate counter-UAS exercise led by the service’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York, in August.
Wow. Does this remind anyone of scenes star wars?
$3 laser light. Blind it. Ambush it. As a former US combat officer I am always in defeat the enemy mode. The US is now enemy #1. If you don’t believe this you are my enemy.
NASRALLAH WAS ASSASSINATED TO PREVENT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
Lebanon Claims Nasrallah Agreed To Temporary Ceasefire Just Before Assassination
In hugely surprising remarks given on American television this week, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has stated that Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah issued his agreement to a US and French-proposed 21-day ceasefire with Israel just before Israel killed him by targeting a secretive meeting in south Beirut last Friday.
Habib revealed the agreement in a PBS interview. He told PBS/CNN host Christiane Amanpour that “They told us that Mr. Netanyahu agreed on this, and so we also got the agreement of Hezbollah on that. And, you know what happened since then.”
An incredulous-looking Amanpour asked: “are you saying that Hassan Nasrallah had agreed to a ceasefire just moments before he was assassinated?”
“He agreed, he agreed–yes, yes. We agreed completely.”
The top Lebanese diplomat then followed with:
“The Lebanese House Speaker, Mr Nabih Berri, consulted with Hezbollah and we informed the Americans and the French about the agreement. They told us that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu also agreed to the statement issued by both presidents.”
This is all in reference to a Sept.25th joint statement by the US, France, the European Union, Saudi Arabia and other nations urging an immediate 21-day ceasefire during which a more permanent diplomatic solution would be worked out. CNN writes of the interview:
White House senior adviser Amos Hochstein was then set to go to Lebanon to negotiate the ceasefire, Habib continued.
“They told us that Mr. Netanyahu agreed on this and so we also got the agreement of Hezbollah on that and you know what happened since then,” the foreign minister added.
If the Lebanese government account is true, this would have huge implications. However, no specific further evidence that Nasrallah agreed to ceasefire has yet emerged. Reuters’ top foreign correspondent, Idrees Ali, has called the revelation “Pretty stunning.”
Further reporting from CNN could point to the accuracy of FM Habib’s statements:
A Western source familiar with the negotiations also said Hezbollah had agreed to the temporary truce shortly before the US released the proposal last week. The source didn’t say whether the decision had come directly from Nasrallah, but said that for the movement to agree, they would have needed his approval. A second source familiar with the talks agreed that the US was aware that Hezbollah was agreeing to the ceasefire.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lebanon-says-nasrallah-agreed-temporary-ceasefire-just-assassination
Sadly, most of mankind’s technological advancements are used for warfare first.
I think it reminds me more of Terminator – and we all know how that story plays out in the films.
Who could forget? Arnold became governor of CA!
Oh, the silliness that clueless and well indoctrinated #DumbAgians; whom debasement transfers had succeeded in handing all the fruits of more intelligent beings’ labor too; could be relied upon, time and time again, to mindlessly fall for. There was literally not one single children’s fairytale that the negative-intellects would not eagerly fall for, if only one of Dear Leader’s certified hype spinners put it on TeeVee…
All while the idiot colonies which they had been handed “ownership” over in its entirety, fell further and further behind freer and less lock-limit-idiot societies around the world. Year in year out.
The “mechanical hound” from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
Robotics is coming.
Needs a motor to power them.
Next generation ICE engines will be used in many applications.
Lighter, smaller and high power density with better fuel efficiency.
“Next generation ICE engines will be used in many applications.
Lighter, smaller and high power density with better fuel efficiency.”
Since ICEs are such a novel and immature field, and all….
That is the point of my post.
There are new concepts, re-imagined usage of engine technology.
ICE engines have not changed in 100 years and more since inception.
Carbon based fuels are still the most energy rich per pound of any form of source.
That is a hurdle not being overcome by Battery sourced electrical motors.
New ICE engines currently being field tested with potential to turn entire industry on its’ head.
Whether that be used in hybrid vehicles as Range extenders when Battery of EV runs out or in Robotics where lightweight power supply to run electric or hydraulic activators of applied mechanics.
Anywhere weight and range becomes a factor in deployment of a device.
If we could convince the U.S. Army to switch to electric tanks, peace might break out.
Military is moving towards one fuel type to power troop deployments.
Supply logistics is major headache to keep fuel depots.
Will not be battery powered tanks. Doubtful any other Nation would hinder their military in such a manner.
Then again US military has gone woke with current administration.
add: How essential is this?
Recently carrier group got sidelined when a fuel ship ran aground.
“ICE engines have not changed in 100 years and more since inception.”
And neither have shirts. Nor guns. Nor ship hulls, aside from scale.
And if you look 50 years back: Neither have airplanes. Nor even spaceships. As well as computers, if you discount for the now 50 year old Moore’s Law: Virtually all of computer science was done by the 70s to 80s. All “we’ve” done since, is laid more cable, built more of the same old ICs and software functions, and cruised on Moore’s 50 year old law.
What exactly is it about diminishing returns which is so hard to grasp?
Everything evolves quickly in the beginning. Then things slow down, as further incremental improvements get ever harder to eke out.
Diminishing returns is perhaps THE most fundamental concept of economics. And evolution. First, low hanging fruits are picked. Then, things get harder and harder the further up one has to go. Things simply DO NOT work the opposite way.
Googl sold this DOG to Samsung.
Nano butterflies in and German shepherds are doing colonoscopy in Jasa tunnels. Demand for smart dogs and AI is high. Tel Aviv stupid/arrogant elite cannot gather more than a 100 protesters to oust Bibi, thanks to Iran. Bibi crushed Liberty and Democracy in Israel. Biden on his side. Bibi might not start a new front with Iran a months before the Nov election. Kicking Hezbollah out of south Lebanon is good enough.
KTLA had a story yesterday about a robot dog added to the LAPD. Part of the story was about concerns of residents about the use of the robodog. LAPD responded that the manufacturer won’t allow them to arm the robot.
Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war.
Let’s correct one sentence for more accuracy AND HONESTY with ourselves!
“As a counter-HUMAN measure, the army is testing robo-dogs with armed rotating turrets.”
COMING TO A CROWDED IRRITATING (to ELITES) DEMONSTRATION NEAR YOU IN THE USA!
OmniCorp ED-209 predecessor.
Next up, advanced by harvested stem cells from fetal abortions, GMO food chains, bioweapon vectors using RNA, AI super clusters … Clone Wars.
China Puts a Bandaid on Its Economy. Its Still Missing the Real Problems.https://archive.md/2UHQV#selection-229.0-229.73
Forbes did a nice article on this back in August, for a more detailed analysis. They cover Ukraine and how they have these in use (They have 30 Dogs) for the first time in War. They got them from a British Company.
– They are Remote Controlled (2 mile range)
– They Run up to 9 mph
– They can be camouflaged
– They can be erased if captured
This will be the bulk of troops, if a war was to break out. Their Cost… $4,000 – $8,000 Euro Per Dog! Makes one wonder why we didn’t just send 10,000 to Ukraine for cheap money, and invested the $Billions Kamala/Biden gave them IN AMERICA!!!
Biggest hurdle remains batteries. So keep buying those EVs and everything else battery powered so we can push the mil tech further.
Well, of course, they will turn to ROBOTICS for the on-the-ground analysis of WHO to kill and the hard part will be the “FRIENDLY FIRE” deaths which are of course NOT a heartbreak if the Commanders are accidentally offed!
Biggest hurdle is so very often “Energy”, or as you refer to, as a form of energy, batteries. If it wasn’t for far more important forms…
Stu, and others, my short Paper here is entitled, “THE WAR CYCLE.”
Please turn your “thinking” around on the INTENT OF WARS. The Ukraine War has been, and IS, all about MONEY SPENDING. Here is the WAR/Money CYCLE route, to be perfectly clear you:
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. There have been ZERO “wars” that have been truly DANGEROUS FOR AMERICANS. But, the DEATHS ON THE GROUND are real and wars are about MONEY and killin’ – – -PEOPLE which they deem to be “Collateral Damage.” CHILDREN AND WOMEN ARE ALSO KILLED and that IS ALSO A GOAL, but secondary to the MONEY being minted everywhere for all of the War machine members.
These “Wars” are only DANGEROUS to those nearby, and on the ground. LIP-FLAPPING may only be the true danger to the talking heads here, as that creates friction and chapped lips.
PREP protocol during Covid, was about the money. There was no medical justification for Remdesivir.
There was no justification to the COVID scam and every aspect of it because it was not a Pandemic. I edited a German Language TREATISE on the numbers back in July of 2020 and the larger point was that it was a FALSE PANIC. It was translated to ENGLISH and I was asked by that College Professor to edit it in ENGLISH. After that, I found the OFFICIAL death rates, which were a fraction of a percentage and never took a single JAB.
Well that was interesting and different, and I gave you my time. I came away asking myself 1 question, but couldn’t find an answer.
Is He Voting for Trump?
The picture of the “dog” seems, to my untrained eye, heavy on the “and pony”.
Clamp a weapon to the dog. Give little thought to robustness under fire. Don’t ask how fast that mag will empty on full auto.
Yeah. The dog does, though, raise the question of how long it’ll be before plumbers have “dogs” that can be tele-operated when they are confronted with repairs they can’t handle on their own. And how much such “dogs” cost.
Cheap!
That will be easy to control with additional “AMMO LOAD SENSORS.” It is NOT that hard to shoot precisely with better lenses, and depth perceptive camera’s. In other words, the ROBO-DOG KILLING MACHINE will be easier to aim and ammo waste can be reduced, IF AND UNTIL THE MIC finds out and they see AMMO LOAD NUMBERS decrease, and then they will amp up the LOBBY MONEY to make sure that AMMO IS WASTED!
COME ON, the VERY LAST WORD USED IS “ECONOMIES” or BUDGETS. These are secondary to the MAXIMUM SPENDING BUSH DOCTRINE.
Right now, all of this hand-wringing over deaths and so on are PHONY. THEY ARE HAND-RUBBING right now to maximize income streams to the US INTERESTS!
Think about MR. POTTER in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Who let the dogs out?
I see a problem with 30 million dollar drones that the Houthis have repeatedly shot down or what is a very expensive robodog that probably costs more than a cyber truck and has only a single gun. Expensive weapons that can be defeated with cheap weapons.
China recently set the world record for a choreographed drone display involving over 8000 drones that made amazing patterns. If those same cheap 8000 drones carried a payload then they would overwhelm the capabilities of a dog or a pack of dogs to shoot them down and destroy the dogs and any target in the area. Even a phalanx firing 100 rounds a second couldn’t shoot down even half of the drones and all the drones getting through would be like a shotgun blast to the target.
And now there are drones guided by a fine wire so they can’t be jammed.
A few million dollars worth of cheap drones will take down any expensive equipment. Perhaps even swarms of cheap drones will act like bird strikes against expensive jet fighters?
Drones are very limited to air, and not nearly as efficient as these critters will be.
Again, everyone: “EFFICIENT” is not a GOAL.
Inefficiency is a FEATURE, not a BUG! SPENDING is the point.
In the Military, they are spending the money on killing machines. It’s what they do!
Everywhere else, it depends on where specifically you are referring to? Then Whom is running it, or in charge of the $…
How are they limited to air? They fly, they hover for a while and then return to the charging ports as recharged drones take the vacated position.. Keep a few thousand up near your position at different elevations and scattered all directions and they will act as barrage balloons once did to keep enemy aircraft away as getting a chunk of debris with explosives enclosed would make a mess of even a tough warthog engine.
A flying minefield in effect.
I agree, fly, and if you see it, bomb it! “The End”
I go everywhere, and anywhere, except where my surveillance drones go. If and when needed I have them bomb my routes. They are a great resource!
I don’t need them where I spend the bulk of my time. In buildings, lots of underground tunnels, air ducts, sewer systems, ventilation ducts, water purification pipes, and all sorts of places…
It is the future of ground warfare. Although expensive, they are way cheaper than using humans for the brut force aspect. Whether using two legs or four is better, I lean toward the four-leg approach.
Rube Goldberg: The future of warfare. And everything else. All us idiots have to, is print infinite money, hand it all to the dumbest of all possible Americans, so that they can “inveeest” their newfound, unearned, loot in the trivially obvious nonsense….
Each one of these welfare projects for dilettante children of illiterate Fed welfare queens will; for the next 2 centuries at least; take 4-10 guys; ON THE FRONTLINE; just to maintain sufficiently to keep moving.
And that’s before taking into consideration that more sentient beings can produce an order of magnitude more full-on drones, than this insult can carry mere cartridges for its “counter-drone” turret gun, for any given cost in time and resources.
Excellent, more of this.
And here’s one with a flamethrower:
Flame-throwing robo-dog can now be yours for under $10k
Many have been working in this area for some time.
MARINES TEST EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AT THE COMBAT CENTER
19 OCT 2023
Cpl. Andrew Bray
Marines with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, MCAGCC, in concert with the Office of Naval Research, tested a quadruped robotic platform referred to as the “robotic goat”, Sept. 9, 2023.
TTECG and ONR test fired an M72 Light Anti-tank Weapon rocket launcher from the robotic goat. The robotic goat can carry various sensors or weapon systems that would otherwise be carried by a Marine.
…
https://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/3563689/marines-test-emerging-technologies-at-the-combat-center/
Unleash the hounds!
They have been!
New Zealand – the Doomed Country
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/5/new-zealands-young-are-departing-in-record-numbers-as-cost-of-living-bites
Again .. this is what happens when a country has limited access to affordable energy
Why can’t you stay on topic?
Cuz the topic is boring and irrelevant to The Big Picture – which is collapse
It’s called getting old.
Are you a Taylor Swift fan?
Less and less are today…
Yes. It’s all doom and gloom from FE. Like his prediction of the Permian production crashing last year. No wait, crashing this year. No wait, maybe next year. And he is still too afraid to give me a number for Permian production a year from now. Because he has no idea what he is talking about. Come on Eddy. What will Permian production be 12 months from now? Show me how smart you are. Lol!
The Precarious State of the Shale Oil Industry:
Try to get your head around the idea that by 2027, US tight oil production might be 12 MM BOPD, not the 9 MM it is now, which is what cheerleaders say it will be, and that means we’ll actually have to find and extract 12 MM BOPD… before we can ever grow the new 3 MM.
Man, that is a slew of new wells! Thats gonna take like…four times the HZ wells we’ve already drilled in the US.
Where? Read More
Same old sh*t from Eddy. Referencing articles I have already read. But too chicken to give me his own prediction.
Come on you coward. What’s your prediction for Permian production in 12 months?
What’s that? You are too afraid to give me a production number because you’re worried it will make you look stupid!
Too late for that. You already look stupid.
I wonder what old article you will reference in your next response? Rather than answer my question.
What’s saved the world from oil decline was unconventional tight “fracked” oil, which accounted for 63% of total U.S. crude oil production in 2019 and 83% of global oil growth from 2009 to 2019. So it’s a big deal if we’ve reached the peak of fracked oil, because that is also the peak of both conventional and unconventional oil and the decline of all oil in the future.
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-extinction-plan-uep
My prediction?
Extinction for the human species.
Lol! You are easy to predict.
Don’t answer a simple question. Just post another useless link.
Coward!
‘More Pipelines will refill the oil fields’ Papa Dave
Lol! That was YOUR stupid answer to another one of my questions!
Let’s review my two simple questions that relate to your claim that Permian production is crashing.
1. Why did they just complete the Matterhorn pipeline, which will take MORE oil away from the Permian? And why are they building several MORE new pipelines in the next few years? Why would they build all these pipelines if Permian production is crashing?
2. Give me your prediction for Permian production a year from now? Since you claim production is crashing, tell me how much lower Permian production will be 12 months from now. And I will give you my number for how much higher Permian production will be 12 months from now.
It’s all so simple. Here’s your chance to show everyone how smart you are. Give us your prediction for much lower Permian production a year from now. And in response, I will give you my prediction for higher Permian production a year from now. If you are correct you can be a hero! You can lord it over me!
But you won’t tell me your number. Because you are a coward. You are afraid to be proven wrong.
You are just a little boy who cries wolf, over and over again. Who tries to impress everyone by cutting and pasting other people’s articles.
What a loser.
When Papa Dave was faced with this:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2024/09/11/crude-oil-extraction-may-be-well-past-peak/
He responded with:
“No problem just build more pipelines to service the Permian and the problem is solved”
Papa Dave is also very supportive of the Safe and Effective Death Shots that are maiming and killing millions.
Lol! You coward. How desperate you must be to lie like that!
Come on you big chicken! Stop the copy and paste of other peoples work. Stop with the lies, making up shit I never said. It just shows how frightened you are to give me an answer.
Answer my questions you scared little boy.
1. Why did they just complete the Matterhorn pipeline, which will take MORE oil away from the Permian? And why are they building several MORE new pipelines in the next few years? Why would they build all these pipelines if Permian production is crashing?
2. Give me your prediction for Permian production a year from now? Since you claim production is crashing, tell me how much lower Permian production will be 12 months from now. And I will give you my number for how much higher Permian production will be 12 months from now.
Come on loser.
Why would they build more pipelines?
I suppose because they understand that oil supply has peaked… and if they do not suck the oil out faster and get it to the market … oil prices will explode through the roof…which of course will result in extreme inflation … and the collapse of the economy.
I believe adding pipelines can bring more oil from the Permian to where it is needed.
Try this … buy a milkshake and suck on it with a straw … count the seconds it takes to drain the cup.
Now buy another milkshake and invite 4 people to insert straws… then count how long it takes to drain the cup.
This is not rocket science…. but then if one got suckered by Safe and Effective… one is clearly far from being a rocket scientist…
As for your other question ask the guy who drills the Permian… he’s much better placed than me to answer you.
He has a forum that you can ask the question… he generally will respond…. please make sure to come back and post the Q&A here.
The Precarious State of the Shale Oil Industry:
Try to get your head around the idea that by 2027, US tight oil production might be 12 MM BOPD, not the 9 MM it is now, which is what cheerleaders say it will be, and that means we’ll actually have to find and extract 12 MM BOPD… before we can ever grow the new 3 MM. Man, that is a slew of new wells!
Thats gonna take like…four times the HZ wells we’ve already drilled in the US.
Where? Read More
– Try to get your head around the “IDEA” > Some Idea? Stop!
– that by 2027 > Another “IDEA” Please Stop!
– US tight oil production might be 12 MM BOPD “Might Be” C’mon…
You lost me…
“You lost me..”
Lol! That’s because he has no ideas of his own. He’s useless. All he can do is copy and paste info from old articles. And he will paste the same thing over and over again in response to a variety of questions. Even if it has little to do with the question you ask.
Sometimes the articles he links to are 2 decades old!
Every time I ask him a question he just copies and pastes more of the same old garbage.
Are you by chance a fan of Taylor Swift?
First stop, Los Angeles area 7-11s.
HONG KONG, Sept 25 (Reuters Breakingviews) – China’s leaders will be pleased at the immediate reaction to their latest plan to engineer a stock market recovery. The country’s benchmark CSI 300 Index (.CSI300), opens new tab has climbed about 7% since the People’s Bank of China announced a broad package, opens new tab of measures, including rate cuts and stock market support, on Tuesday, taking the gauge into positive territory for the year. But the recovery is likely to fizzle out.
Chinese Stocks in Hong Kong Slide After Rallying More Than 30%
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-03/chinese-stock-rally-cools-in-hong-kong-as-tech-shares-slump?srnd=homepage-asia&embedded-checkout=true
Well that was quick
More Cow Bell?
Because the Haitians are eating the real dogs.
The army said, the four legged dog has an advantage over wheeled or tracked robots because it can be used as a pet when off duty.
They really should put fake fur on it.
and make it HOWL.
At ambulances like my next door neighbors dogs do!
The Taliban are using robotic goats …
Terminator. We’re doomed.
“Never send a man where you can send a bullet.”
They should try robot sheep.
Already have, look around.
Wow,
Did you managed to miss war in Ukraine and gazzilion various drones used there?
Not sure if robo-dogs are cost-effective solution. Basic robo-dog costs about 70k. Add cost of any military specific hardware (not cheap). Then compare to cost of flying drone (few hundred, up to 1-2k if equipped with night vision hardware).
One advantage of cheap as in cheap drones, is expendability. Drone not working quite right….set it aside and look at it when the war slows down. If your hundred thousand dollar puppy breaks down, you have to have people available to deal with it. Skilled people trained to operate in theater. Trained skilled people that could be doing something else in a force like Ukraine has where they are critically short of everything except the enemy. Like fix drones that have a fifty mile combat radius instead of robots that have a fifty foot combat radius.
The Army is testing a lot of things OCONUS as we speak. Nothing new here.
I’ve been calling this marriage of AI and General Dynamics robots for the past three years, once AI demonstrated at least some decent functionality. This is the future of warfare for superpowers; not bodies. Eradicate and invade a nation from the couch or Vault 101. Palantir, General Dynamics and the MIC for the win.
The military has been testing robots for the battlefield for a lot longer.
Second that.
It’s as if Science fiction is the INSTRUCTION MANUAL, not merely a fantasy. Speaking of which, Mike…ever wonder how any one person (Musk) manages to just wrangle the space over everyone? Were we ever asked if we wanted RF IP dosed in the middle of nowhere? Today it’s “Starlink Internet”, tomorrow “Skynet”?
“It’s as if Science fiction is the INSTRUCTION MANUAL, not merely a fantasy.”
Beyond a certain degree of rank, uncritical stupidity; there is no longer sufficient grey matter to distinguish between the two.
Blind, uncritical faith that the fungi in one’s home’s walls somehow creates value/wealth as the “home” sits there decaying, requires stupidity beyond that degree. The Fed having succeeded in it’s mission to ensure America is now “owned”, hence ran, solely by those stupid enough to fall for the latter, is why “we” are now also inundated by one example more egregiously ridiculous than the next, of the former.
It’s all idiots now. All the way up.
They’ll bring these robot dogs home someday to use against us. Programming language to have the dogs scan for ground threats instead of air threats probably already exists. There’s probably also code that enables the robot dogs to interface with surveillance drones to track and hunt down ground targets.
It’s Beijing’s largest such stimulus since the pandemic but whether it works remains to be seen. China’s stimulus efforts The Shanghai Composite has rallied sharply in the aftermath of those moves but remains about 50% below its all-time high of nearly 6,000, last seen in 2007.
China has tried to boost growth in recent years with a series of half-measures that have failed to address structural weaknesses in its economy. These moves have failed to boost growth or lead to a durable and sustainable stock market rally.
SSEC YTD mountain The Shanghai Composite in 2024 Whether it’s the enormous drag from its wildly overbuilt residential and commercial real estate sector or flagging consumer spending, stimulus alone will be unlikely to reverse China’s poor fortunes.
While lowering rates and injecting liquidity are potent tools, they are more powerful when a country is dealing with systemic financial crises, as opposed to systemic structural flaws.
https://archive.md/lD5kY#selection-2387.1065-2387.1835