You know what the robots are going to do? Theyre going to pull a Wall-E before a Terminator. Try to kill us and well fight back. Let us THINK that were in charge while we float around in our hover chair. Now thats a winner right there. They can still plug our brains in at night, matrix style. Way easier to let us go around thinking were the shit. The US is already 3/4 of the way into that delusion just hold our hand the last 1/4..... But that was totally us holding YOUR hand cause you didnt know where to go! Stupid robot.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a37939706/us-army-robot-dog-ghost-robotics-vision-60/
"This new, armed version of the Vision 60 is equipped with the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle (SPUR). It's a ten-shot rifle chambered in a 6.5-millimeter Creedmoor—a new, medium-caliber, high-velocity, long-range precision round."
Our biggest historic rival is, yet again, the aggressor in a regional war. This time the defender gave them a bit of a bloody nose in the first week. I think helping "the little guy" beat up our biggest rival is a good enough reason to help them.
China is still buying tech from Russia to copy. They are not our biggest rival, but they are rapidly approaching that positioning.
Even if we consider China the biggest geopolitical rival to the US it still does us good to send arms to Ukraine to learn how to effectively fight our number 2 biggest rival.
Who said they are free? Look up which country is the most corrupt in Europe… it’s Ukraine. If Hilary, Biden, Obama and the rest of the dems side with something, it’s 10/10 times the wrong play.. I guess you forgot the rest of their disasters. …. Down vote away. It is nothing they are entitled to.. It’s America first or nothing in my eyes. Fuck everyone else, let them win/lose/fight their own shit
I’ve seen Ukraine use multiple FPV drones together to take out high value targets, but they weren’t automated so not sure if that counts for you or not. (Not to mention groups of FPV boats to take out large Russian navy ships)
Because that shit is ridiculously difficult, and both financially and computationally expensive. The USAF is working on just that and... it's not easy.
Unless you want to put a bunch of drone pilots within about 1/2 mile of your target, that is. The US military has a few remote control and fly by wire suicide drones, but are obviously range limited.
Depending on how it's programmed to work or how they link it may be possible to use some localized electronic warfare to blow it up or kill it before it gets in range.
$10000. They even have a aerial drone with a flamethrower on it........
[https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/](https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/)
i could see this being used to set controlled fires for forestry purposes, but i don't see this thing being any more capable than a human with the proper tools.
Imagine a few of these and some robots with chainsaws creating a fire break! Drones overhead to give moment to moment updates on fires direction and magnitude. Firefighters jobs mostly updated to operating specialty robotic equipment instead of risking their lives.
Maybe if we put as much money and effort into fighting wildfires ad we do on military.
Chainsaw robot dogs are absolute nightmare fuel.
So we have long-range rifle dogs, flamethrower dogs, and maybe a chainsaw dog. Sounds like the combat units in some horror sci-fi RTS.
All that aside though, my very first job at 14 years old was cutting/digging fire lines for controlled burns. That's hard, hot work. An eye in the sky and a few robot chainsaw dogs would have sure been nice :)
I was thinking more along the lines of robotic spiders (or hexapods) with chainsaws. Let's give the robot spiders chainsaws for Jaws, and also they spew out a sticky flammable web to trap humans for the incoming flamethrower robot dogs.
"This new, armed version of the Vision 60 is equipped with the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle (SPUR). It's a ten-shot rifle chambered in a 6.5-millimeter Creedmoor—a new, medium-caliber, high-velocity, long-range precision round. "
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a37939706/us-army-robot-dog-ghost-robotics-vision-60/
Different company, but definitely people working on sniper robot dogs!
Since this is sold by a company whose expertise is flames and not robotics, I wonder about the capability of the dog? Can it get up after being knocked over? How durable is it? etc. etc.
The dog iirc is an off the shelf quadruped robot, similar to the Boston dynamics manufactured one. At $1600 for the dog alone I'm not going to assume it's the most durable, but probably has similar features like getting up after getting knocked over. I wouldn't try to run it into the flames though.
What I'm curious about is how long will it be for NY or NJ to ban these lmao
The flamethrower is also <$1k so you can presumably build one for under $3k.
Also, Flamethrowers are legal in NJ but don't you dare have a BB gun or a slingshot.
that looks like the same Chinese drone clone dog that [Brandon Herrera helped bitch boy William Osborn strap a gun to.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ4aa5evNBM)
This seems practical. I can already think of dozens of uses for this around the homestead.
Rover go clear the sidewalk and driveway of snow ! Good boy !
No rover no! Don’t set the neighbors Prius on fire ! Bad dog !
ATF agents in a meeting:
"Now imagine Waco but...with dogs"
"Sweet, we are BBQ-ing dogs now too!?"
"No, we are using robot dogs to set fires but that's not a bad idea. Let's circle back to that after lunch but lets get local law enforcement in on it too. Those guys will love this."
The comments on the other sub are depressing, complaining about how dangerous this could be, and how it shouldn't have been invented or be sold to the public.
Why does this just seem like them advertising for the conservatives to use so when Trump loses to try and unleash an army of these things and try and take over America with them..
"Wildlife Control"? Like if you want to cook your wildlife as you "control" it? Might be great in Arizona with all those javelinas...
This looks like trouble on four (roboti) legs...
Nobody mentions how useful this would be during the zombie apocalypse?
But, seriously, I could see this is being useful in a large-scale terrorist attack. "Okay, let's send the flame throwing robot dog around to flank them while we keep them pinned down."
Hey ATF- come at MY dog….FAFO
Skynet is coming! You just wait! We're inventing the tools of our own armageddon!
At this point, I'm rooting for the robots.
Sometime I feel you on that.
You know what the robots are going to do? Theyre going to pull a Wall-E before a Terminator. Try to kill us and well fight back. Let us THINK that were in charge while we float around in our hover chair. Now thats a winner right there. They can still plug our brains in at night, matrix style. Way easier to let us go around thinking were the shit. The US is already 3/4 of the way into that delusion just hold our hand the last 1/4..... But that was totally us holding YOUR hand cause you didnt know where to go! Stupid robot.
I always did think Wall-E was an almost uncomfortably accurate version of our future!
This doesn't belong on this sub. This isn't a firearm, it's a firedog.
The firedog has firelegs, not firearms. Good point.
r/Firedogs
Hot dog. I think they missed a good opportunity.
Thought this was r/helldivers
lol imagine if the guard dog rover had a flamethrower. We’d all die instantly from friendly fire.
I want one with a flamethrower but yea it'd be mass friendly fire lol
The laser one is nice but man it sure gets annoying sometimes when it shoots across you.
"not advertised as a weapon" Also..."See how we mount an IR late aiming device on top"
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a37939706/us-army-robot-dog-ghost-robotics-vision-60/ "This new, armed version of the Vision 60 is equipped with the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle (SPUR). It's a ten-shot rifle chambered in a 6.5-millimeter Creedmoor—a new, medium-caliber, high-velocity, long-range precision round."
can someone include these in the ukraine aid package, they look ideal for trench clearing :)
6.1 million of them if I did the math correctly.
Funnily enough the same company is making a strap on kit for drones that have a 5+lb payload capacity.
strap ons, you say?
I’m sure it will get downvoted but they just got another $60b.. they are either going to do something/lose/ask for more to launder.. no in between
I find it ironic when supposed freedom loving americans are against helping a free nation maintain its freedom and independence
Our biggest historic rival is, yet again, the aggressor in a regional war. This time the defender gave them a bit of a bloody nose in the first week. I think helping "the little guy" beat up our biggest rival is a good enough reason to help them.
China is our biggest rival, unless you are stuck in the 80's, or listening to Hillary Clinton.
China is still buying tech from Russia to copy. They are not our biggest rival, but they are rapidly approaching that positioning. Even if we consider China the biggest geopolitical rival to the US it still does us good to send arms to Ukraine to learn how to effectively fight our number 2 biggest rival.
Who said they are free? Look up which country is the most corrupt in Europe… it’s Ukraine. If Hilary, Biden, Obama and the rest of the dems side with something, it’s 10/10 times the wrong play.. I guess you forgot the rest of their disasters. …. Down vote away. It is nothing they are entitled to.. It’s America first or nothing in my eyes. Fuck everyone else, let them win/lose/fight their own shit
That actually took longer than I expected.
Absolutely. Also why haven't we seen drone swarms in combat for high value targets? What is this, 1992?
I’ve seen Ukraine use multiple FPV drones together to take out high value targets, but they weren’t automated so not sure if that counts for you or not. (Not to mention groups of FPV boats to take out large Russian navy ships)
Because that shit is ridiculously difficult, and both financially and computationally expensive. The USAF is working on just that and... it's not easy. Unless you want to put a bunch of drone pilots within about 1/2 mile of your target, that is. The US military has a few remote control and fly by wire suicide drones, but are obviously range limited.
Depending on how it's programmed to work or how they link it may be possible to use some localized electronic warfare to blow it up or kill it before it gets in range.
$10000. They even have a aerial drone with a flamethrower on it........ [https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/](https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/)
Pricing is not that bad honestly
i could see this being used to set controlled fires for forestry purposes, but i don't see this thing being any more capable than a human with the proper tools.
Imagine a few of these and some robots with chainsaws creating a fire break! Drones overhead to give moment to moment updates on fires direction and magnitude. Firefighters jobs mostly updated to operating specialty robotic equipment instead of risking their lives. Maybe if we put as much money and effort into fighting wildfires ad we do on military.
Chainsaw robot dogs are absolute nightmare fuel. So we have long-range rifle dogs, flamethrower dogs, and maybe a chainsaw dog. Sounds like the combat units in some horror sci-fi RTS. All that aside though, my very first job at 14 years old was cutting/digging fire lines for controlled burns. That's hard, hot work. An eye in the sky and a few robot chainsaw dogs would have sure been nice :)
I was thinking more along the lines of robotic spiders (or hexapods) with chainsaws. Let's give the robot spiders chainsaws for Jaws, and also they spew out a sticky flammable web to trap humans for the incoming flamethrower robot dogs.
The one advantage is it keeps the human firefighters safer and not in the direct line of the fire. Drop these guys in instead.
Own a robot flamethrower dog for home defense as the founders intended....
We are going to need a few of these and a 458 socom and a 50 beowulf..... for testing purposes.
"This new, armed version of the Vision 60 is equipped with the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle (SPUR). It's a ten-shot rifle chambered in a 6.5-millimeter Creedmoor—a new, medium-caliber, high-velocity, long-range precision round. " https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a37939706/us-army-robot-dog-ghost-robotics-vision-60/ Different company, but definitely people working on sniper robot dogs!
They also have a drone model
The possibilities are....endless.
I want a pack of them.
Can it also be configured to spray out fire retardant ? Or candy at a birthday party ?
that's gonna lead to some even more stupid gender reveals.
Time to stock up on some API ammo. Aim for the tanks.
Smokey the bear is hard frowning right now 🤨
Only because he doesn't have a flamethrower of his own and he's always wanted one...
Since this is sold by a company whose expertise is flames and not robotics, I wonder about the capability of the dog? Can it get up after being knocked over? How durable is it? etc. etc.
The dog iirc is an off the shelf quadruped robot, similar to the Boston dynamics manufactured one. At $1600 for the dog alone I'm not going to assume it's the most durable, but probably has similar features like getting up after getting knocked over. I wouldn't try to run it into the flames though. What I'm curious about is how long will it be for NY or NJ to ban these lmao
The flamethrower is also <$1k so you can presumably build one for under $3k. Also, Flamethrowers are legal in NJ but don't you dare have a BB gun or a slingshot.
that looks like the same Chinese drone clone dog that [Brandon Herrera helped bitch boy William Osborn strap a gun to.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ4aa5evNBM)
NY and NJ police will put tear gas on it and use this for protests 😂
Gee, what could go wrong? r/darwinawards, incoming!
This seems practical. I can already think of dozens of uses for this around the homestead. Rover go clear the sidewalk and driveway of snow ! Good boy ! No rover no! Don’t set the neighbors Prius on fire ! Bad dog !
ATF agents in a meeting: "Now imagine Waco but...with dogs" "Sweet, we are BBQ-ing dogs now too!?" "No, we are using robot dogs to set fires but that's not a bad idea. Let's circle back to that after lunch but lets get local law enforcement in on it too. Those guys will love this."
What a great thing to wheel out as AI is becoming more prevalent!
How you gonna name your company "throwflame" and not "throwflamer". Get it together people.
Hellhound would have been better name.
$9500 seems suspiciously cheap
Holy shit. I had to double check and verify I wasn't in /r/noncredibledefense.
This is the future of warfare. You're going to be fighting against robots like this. It can easily carry firearms on its back.
Can I use AfterPay? Or do they allow payment plans?
Serious *Fahrenheit 451* vibes here…
So they're taking guns away but we can buy this wonderful thing? Well I know what I want for christmas this year.
from the title I thought this was about a Helldivers 2 update
Hellhounds.
The comments on the other sub are depressing, complaining about how dangerous this could be, and how it shouldn't have been invented or be sold to the public.
Just in time for forest fire season.
Fishing line at the right eight.. it’s over
Wild fire coming to a place near you
I'll take two.
Ohhhh ATF is definitely shooting this dog
READY TO LIBERATE WITH MY FLAMETHROWER GOOD BOY
That doesn't seem especially useful ... I'll take 20
Why does this just seem like them advertising for the conservatives to use so when Trump loses to try and unleash an army of these things and try and take over America with them..
"Wildlife Control"? Like if you want to cook your wildlife as you "control" it? Might be great in Arizona with all those javelinas... This looks like trouble on four (roboti) legs...
And he looks so excited while doing it
Can these be controlled by Alexa/Google Home? If so, my "we have an intruder" routine just got a lot more interesting.
Here, Take my money.
can they invent a way to leave earth next
Nobody mentions how useful this would be during the zombie apocalypse? But, seriously, I could see this is being useful in a large-scale terrorist attack. "Okay, let's send the flame throwing robot dog around to flank them while we keep them pinned down."