News is slowly coming out of Syria that Russian robots have been sent into combat over the past few days during the Salma offensive and they're saying that robots scored >10 kills. They're also using other kinds of robots (PackBot equivalents) to hunt for IEDs since AlQaeda left several dozen boobytraps but those are different from combat robots.
Have they gone too far? Using robots to kill people is one step too far.
Thoughts?
>Russia desperately trying to impress world militaries
Did they give any criteria for what these "robots" were?
If they weren't fully autonomous, who cares? May as well call Smart Bombs robots and they have thousands of kills.
>>28522952
Reports are from SAA fighters on twitter. Russian MoD has been mum on the issue. I'm guessing they don't want attention (it's bad PR).
>>28522939
Sounds cool to me. Even if its pretty much just one of those remote control airshit tanks with a gun attached to it. unmanned terrestrial vehicles has a ring to it.
>>28522939
> robot
> HUD aimed missile/gun
what's the difference? where is the line? who the fuck cares? kill bots gonna kill.
>>28522952
This.
Do you have even a single source for this
>>28523126
hastags #SAA on twitter. use translate feature to read arabic.
>>28522939
>Using robots to kill people is one step too far.
Why would you think something so utterly moronic
>>28523100
Diff is that these bots have a "auto-aim & fire" options. They basically detect positions of incoming fire and they auto-aim & shoot.
Human is not the one pulling the trigger in this kind of setup.
>>28522952
People call any remote controlled vehicle a robot, even if it has no self guiding ability.
>>28523181
If any of that is true, it would be interesting.
>>28523181
>Diff is that these bots have a "auto-aim & fire" options. They basically detect positions of incoming fire and they auto-aim & shoot.
You're talking shit.
Soooon
>PLEASE PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON. YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY.
>>28523233
my favs are from Elysium...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk_wRj64aes
I seriously think there should be some ethical guidelines on using those things in warzones. Like who would be responsible for war crimes commited by UCGV?
>>28523374
The person operating it you tit
>>28523383
No, it's totally an autonomous killbot.
>>28523383
But what if there is no person in the loop? These things have arrays of sensors and you can send them in and let them shoot at the fist thing that moves or the first thing that fires upon it. Who's responsible then?
>>28523407
The thing is they don't. Idiot.
>>28523417
>The thing is they don't.
But they do.
>Idiot.
Is that what your mother calls you? Figures.
>>28523438
What's that? You can't provide a single source to back yourself up?
>>28523417
They do not have that capability. What are you talking about?
>>28523456
I see you've backed up your posts with sources... and ad hominems of course.
Do some fucking googling on Platform M.
>>28523477
>Platform M
Cute
>>28523477
Ah, the response to being asked for a source is to ask for an opposing source.
The hallmark of the bullshitter who gets called out and resorts to the fallacy of demanding proof of a negative.
>>28523517
Are you really so fucking retarded that you can't even use a search engine?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/technology/11370393/universal-soldier-russia-military-robots.html
>>28523407
I would assume it would end up on whoever deployed the robot knowing that was a possibility
>>28523537
>Says nothing about automatically firing on anything firing upon it or firing automatically at the first thing that moves
Thanks for disproving your own point
>>28523537
All that talk, with nothing to back it up.
>>28523537
Your source says that it doesn't engage on its own and that it's controlled by a crew from three miles away.
>>28523537
see
>>28523559
Must suck to have fetal alcohol syndrome, my Slavic friend.
>>28523407
You always have a person in the loop, otherwise you've seriously fucked up
>>28523369
The drones were so fucking shitty in this movie and any rich faggot would just hire a former operator for protection instead.
>>28523868
http://youtu.be/UXX0TRtg5Vk
>>28523868
>You always have a person in the loop, otherwise you've seriously fucked up
humans are weak, stupid, get tired easily, get distracted easily and they make stupid mistakes.
machines have none of those faults.
bow down you filthy fleshwad.
>>28523374
War crimes are a silly social construct.
War is a crime. If you as a national leader have decided to say "Fuck peace, let's kill some motherfuckers" you're already okay with being a bad guy. Why not go all the way?
In fact, it could be argued that intentionally neglecting means of winning a war with fewer casualties on your side is basically treason.
>>28523914
>shitty
It kills 2 out of four hostiles, alone. It only loses because the protagonist has a fucking airbursting grenade launcher for a rifle.
>>28524050
Dis shit
>>28522939
Why does a robot need anatomically correct teeth, or a jaw for that matter?
>>28526131
>Why not go all the way?
Because total war doesn't happen between major powers anymore. Christ, why are you here if you don't even understand that?
>>28522939
If you're curious, this video was posted on /pol/ earlier today. The only footage of these fearsome little guys that I could find.
>>60792052
>>28528012
Link? Says its gone already
>>28528012
Sorry the vid link got zapped cause /pol/ is nsfw
>>28528026
It isn't actually gone(just archived).
I just don't think you can link to /pol/ from /k/
Links to the archived thread work just fine on /pol/
Here's a repost
>>28527137
T-1000 is living tissue over a metallic endoskeleton.
Disgusting. Killing by proxy is immoral. Thus differentiates America from shit like Russia, a miral high ground.
>>28528142
>Killing by proxy is immoral.
>Thus differentiates America from shit like Russia, a miral high ground.
Hahaha are you a troll? Or just retarded?
>>28528142
top tier post
>>28523181
So it kills russian and US troops as well?
>>28528113
T-1000 is the liquid metal bullshit, T-800 is the old fleshy model.
WE RUSSIAN TERMINATOR NOW
>>28522939
>Russian robots
Autosnipe anything that fucking moves!
I wish these fuckers were real (and I bet they're already real somewhere).
Personally, I don't think Al Qaeda or ISIS deserve to be killed by a human.
>>28528762
>(and I bet they're already real somewhere).
Korean DMZ. South Koreans have fully automatic turrets instead of landmines to protect it.
>>28522939
Proofs?
>>28522939
>>28528085
This is Dagestan or Ingushetia.
>>28528222
Programmed by the Spetsnaz
>>28523181
The whole "human in the loop" is a bunch of bullshit told to reporters and liberal pussies. If you think warbots aren't going to wind up as autonomous death dealing machines of high speed multi-directional utter mayhem, you're living in Never Never Land.
>>28523181
No. No they dont.
