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Ukraine is putting weapons stations on ground robots to make 'small tanks' that hunt Russia's infiltration teams
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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So did they make the mk-19 more reliable? From my experience that thing would go, “duk, duk, duk, clink…”. Then we’d have to clear the jam and try again.
But a .50 or 7.62 would run until the belt was gone.
This is the issue you'll never get completely around with autonomous systems. A soldier can always figure something out, whether that is simply clearing their weapon, completely disassembling it to repair it, finding a new weapon on the battlefield or getting a buddies side-arm. An autonomous system will never be as versatile and capable of adapting to stuff breaking as a human soldier.
The major advantage with autonomous systems is that you can accept that they break and become dysfunctional in the field. You can always manufacture more, and none of your guys die when one of these fails.
With all that said, I would think you could get pretty far by just adding some arm that can slide back the bolt to clear/reload the weapon when you get a jam. Like 90+ % of the jams I experienced with the MG3 and HK416 were cleared by just doing that.