DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes | TechSpot
The Pentagon’s mad scientists have been cooking up a beast of an unmanned combat vehicle, and it just took a major step forward. DARPA recently put its 12-ton RACER Heavy Platform (RHP) autonomous tank through a fresh round of testing out in the wild.
Since Biden says they would use F-15s to put down people rebelling against their tyranny, I am certain equipment like this would be considered appropriate for deployment against gun owners.
Prepare appropriately.
I wonder how many pounds of Boomerite and in what configuration it would take to disable it.
If you can get the tread(s) a smallish charge would probably be enough to mobility kill anyways. Hard to be sure from the picture, but it looks like a rubber tread such as is found on commercial grade skidsteers. Even if it is more similar to an actual tank tread, that’s still going to be the weakest point.
Agreed.
The other thing is that you can see various machine vision systems on the top of that machine, and chances are a rifle bullet through the lens is all you need to keep it from being able to see where it’s going.
It would be fun to see the result when somebody hacks into the programming and sends a fully-autonomous tank back towards the original users. Sort of like the scene towards the beginning of the original “RoboCop” where the prototype obliterates one of the corporate idiots.
I like your thinking!
I thought about hacking it but not what to do with it after gaining control.
So you’re saying it will be valuable to have signals intelligence, and possibly signals countermeasures, to disrupt armed robots?
Noted.
That’s an obvious goal when dealing with any form of remotely piloted or remote-controlled vehicle. Sigint, cryptanalysis, etc. One possible countermeasure is a denial of service attack: swamp the control signal with a local jammer. Bonus points if it damages the receiver, but just to deafen it is a good start.
“August 24, 1992 An FBI negotiator calls out to the Weavers, asking Vicki (who he does not know has died) whether she would like to let her children out for pancakes. A government robot tries to take a telephone into the Weaver home, but Randy warns that he will shoot the robot and the robot retreats.”
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!) it’s from DARPA so I would not worry
2) Someone used robotic scout vehicles in a war game against the 82nd Airborne. The same robots had literally scared the Taliban out of caves in Afghanistan in the year previous. No robot lasted more than two minutes against American troops.
Um, I don’t know their percentage, but DARPA does have a bunch of major technical successes in its track record. The Internet comes to mind.
Thermite. Drone dropped thermite would be better.
But a drone with a can of spray paint might work also.
Maybe even a paint grenade? One blast covers all the sensors.
I’m thinking it’s mostly a way of tickling some congressman’s fanny for more funding.
As a patriot. I would expect nothing less than a couple of toyota pickups to pull up front at 5 AM and they just dump a couple belts of 277 fury through your house before driving away.
And after what happen in the raid in S.C. the other day? I’m thinking they ain’t going to be very keen on SWAT raid tactics anymore.
Great stuff canned insulating foam might do wonders. Bonus points if it’s able to be introduced into an air intake. Neo magnet to attach the spewing can to the vehicle.
a small explosive charge behind molasses or corn syrup. heat it up a tad and it sticks very firmly to whatever it lands on.
Late to the party. But…
Lots of side cameras and probably rear redundancy as well; but if really autonomous, hacking may not be that easy .
Weak spot is small charge on the rear geared wheel, which seems to be only drive point; at the point of contact with the tread. A pry bar might do it also.
I’d prefer to take the 100 meter shot with a modified 45/70 round. You can guess at the modification for a 500 grainer 😊
Late to the party. But
This is not a duplicate, it’s my first comment
Lots of side cameras and probably rear redundancy as well; but if really autonomous, hacking may not be that easy .
Weak spot is small charge on the rear geared wheel, which seems to be only drive point; at the point of contact with the tread. A pry bar might do it also.
I’d prefer to take the 100 meter shot with a modified 45/70 round. You can guess at the modification for a 500 grainer 😊
.50BMG APIT. . .or two would probably give indigestion if properly placed
At 12 tons, it can’t be heavily armored. Since this is a prototype it may just be sheet metal so the systems can be tested. On the other hand, if you added armor, you would need to add engine and the thing doesn’t look big enough.
Have these fools learned nothing from the UKR war? (rhetorical question)
They need to work on smaller, lighter, faster, cheaper, easily replaceable items.
20′ and only 12 tons means virtually no armor, so 50BMG ball would likely be good enough. Even as a prototype, it must only be for control systems… but given what a Tesla can already do, it should be WAY past that point.
But don’t worry, they will only produce the “green” electric powered version, so just wait for the battery to die… (sadly, that’s only half-joking; they are actually experimenting with a all-electric Hummer.)
All electric Hummer: so is GM. They aren’t having much luck with it, either.
You don’t disable it. You hack it and turn it around to use against the people who sent it out.
Looks like we’re back to digging pits and covering them with branches.