So how come infantry don't take pack mules with them in modern times? I can think of plenty of times when they would be extremely useful. aparently there is enough desire for them that Boston Dynamics is creating a robot donkey.
I know a bunch of people are going to respond "well, they have this limitation or that limitation", yeah, no shit they do, but just because of that it doesn't mean it's not still better than not having them.
Because they have these things called "helicopters" and "trucks" which is how they get to their FOB's and PB's.
Not enough CID to investigate all the new rape allegations.
>>28301280
pack animals can get places where those things can't, and make less sound. I can immagine they'd be useful for soldiers on an offensive, especially in mountains and jungles.
>>28301247
>Trucking through Syria with donkeys carrying extra ammo and food.
>They keep shitting constantly and are stubborn as a mule
>Loud as fuck to.
>A wild ISIS ambush appears
>They light us the fuck up with AKs and RPKs.
>Donkeys get spooked by gunshots and allahu ackbars
>They bolt past our lines, get gunned down
>Now we have to carry all that shit
>mfw
Not even once.
>>28301432
you know guns existed before 1950, right?
Didn't keep militaries from owning massive numbers of horses and other pack animals.
>>28301247
These do it 1000% times more quiet and it takes less training.
>>28301247
Packs your stuff, can be eaten in an emergency, and provides some pleasurable company on those cold lonely nights. Seems like a good deal all around.
>>28301345
Well you'd be wrong, nobody in a mountain operating for so long in a conventional fight that they need to bring a mule with them and it's not going to survive in a jungle.
>>28301748
fuck off vlad.
>>28301432
More like
>Trucking through Syria with donkeys carrying extra ammo and food.
>They keep shitting constantly and are stubborn as a mule
>Loud as fuck too.
>A wild ISIS ambush appears
>They light us the fuck up with AKs and RPKs.
>US rekt by sheer volume of magdumping from the hip
>Donkeys captured
>new isis pleasure battalion created
>donkeys' face when
>>28301717
Yay cause loud thunking sounds are less noise creating than clackity clack dont come back.
>>28301795
Have you ever been on a mountain?
A horse or mule would be very usefull.
>>28301717
> quiet
> runs on a gas engine that sounds like Zeus ripping a burrito fart
Still, actual donkeys are a terrible idea. They panic, refuse to do shit and are obvious cock magnets for bored, horny soldiers. I mean, have you ever actually met a Marine?
>>28301910
Gotta admit, I kek'd.
>>28301327
Underrated poast.
The Wehrmacht had pack mules and horses
The Red Army had trucks
Guess who won the war
>>28301247
You don't have to feed or water a robot donkey.
>>28302837
That is the shittiest analogy I've seen on 4chan in a long time.
I'm sure they tried using donkeys for what you're suggesting in WW2 given that they were already part of the supply chain. If it worked, presumably it would have caught on to some level.
What the fuck are you going to do with a donkey if you ever did get into a contact? With a robot at least you can control it, and it's not going to stop working if it cops a stray round.
You're all missing the fact that it's been done pretty recently, with sucess
Another
>>28302777
>777
Those numvbers don't lie: the post you quote is, in fact, underrated
>>28302617
>runs on a gas engine that sounds like Zeus ripping a burrito fart
That's the ancient version.
The ones they showed back in 2014 are already more nimble and, more importantly, don't sound like an old V3S.
>vid related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDZu04v7_hc
>>28301247
because the military is developing a fucking super expensive robot powered by a loud fucking gas generator instead of just buying a few fucking donkeys
>>28304086
Learn to read.>>28304043
>>28301648
And they don't now for the very reasons that anon just mentioned.
Actually, modern army still use a mules. Even germany and russia do.
>>28301717
>1000% times more quie
you obviously haven't watched any of the videos of those things moving. it had a fucking generator and it makes a high pitch whining noise when it moves
>>28304043
>That's the ancient version.
The ones they showed back in 2014 are already more nimble and, more importantly, don't sound like an old V3S.
>vid related
big dog and the pack mule robot are two different models for different missions and they sound completely different
>>28304043
They HAD to get a fucking woman
to play santa claus
Is there nothing sacred?
brazilian jungle infatry uses water bufalos for innamazon manouvers
the US has used them in afghanistan
>>28304225
>germany and russia
>modern armies
>>28301748
>truth
>>28301247
I've heard a story here and there of patrols taking them out and using them to carry shit like javelin tubes.
>>28304766
> tfw you will never hump through jungle with your water buffalo battle buddy
Life is indeed suffering.
Canadian moutain operations manual states the conditions required for the use of pack animals, as well as the maximum load you can put on each animal.
All I remember is taht only officers can negotiate the use of such animals, and that one of the biggest concerns with pack animals is making sure they ahve adequate feed. As in, if you take a donkey on a monkey, sure, that donkey can carry hit, but you have to allocate that the donkey carry its own food as well.
>>28303962
This. But lack of skilled mule packers/handlers is the limiting factor not lack of oats. Packing and handling mules is a rare trade/skill set in the modern age. Mules are known for being stubborn, like thousand year old defining symbol of stubbornness kind of known.
>>28301327
Okay...we just don't use them in Iraq then.
