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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)

submitted 22 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Every time there is a conflict the attacking nation always seems to employ the successful tactics of the previous war, while the attacked nation develops new tactics.

Russia is trying to fight this war as if it's a rerun of World War II, what were once perfectly sound tactics are utterly stupid now. Sending small teams behind enemy lines was once a very good idea but now you might as well just shoot them yourself. Russia is still don't seem to have developed any kind of effective defence against drones, you would think they would be incentivised to put some effort in.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 16 points 20 hours ago

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] blueworld@piefed.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Fair point...

I think it can do both:

The company makes its "Buria" turret, an autonomous remote weapon station that can be placed in a fixed position on a tripod and fire grenades or a machine gun. Mykyta Rozhkov, Frontline Robotics' chief business development officer, described it as "basically a metal robotic arm for a grenade launcher" or another weapon.

At the start of last year, the main use was placing it in a hidden position where it could fire on the enemy and blunt Russian attacks. But now, the weapons station is being used on ground robots, "so it can be mobile and be used as a small tank," Rozhkov said.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

Why stop at only one Mk-19? Use two or three. And a couple .50s too.

[–] zingo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

[–] blueworld@piefed.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Surprisingly close:

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I was hoping it would crawl on legs like a Metal Gear.