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By Lewis Page
The march of the droids continues, with news emerging over the festive season that ordinary US Army line units - not special forces or temporary trial formations - will now consist partly of war robots and other digitally networked automated killware.
The revelations come with the announcement last week that the US Army's "Brigade Combat Team Modernisation" programme "Increment One" hardware and software will enter initial production as of "early 2010".
RegAd('mpu1', 'reg.science.4159/physics', 'pos=top;sz=336x280', VCs); google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad); This first tranche of modernisation to American combat brigades will see the deployment in every formation of the following items:
By Lewis Page
The march of the droids continues, with news emerging over the festive season that ordinary US Army line units - not special forces or temporary trial formations - will now consist partly of war robots and other digitally networked automated killware.
The revelations come with the announcement last week that the US Army's "Brigade Combat Team Modernisation" programme "Increment One" hardware and software will enter initial production as of "early 2010".
RegAd('mpu1', 'reg.science.4159/physics', 'pos=top;sz=336x280', VCs); google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad); This first tranche of modernisation to American combat brigades will see the deployment in every formation of the following items:
- The "Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle" crawler war-bot, capable of "infantry and special forces" operations in buildings, caves and tunnels. The SUGV is unarmed (though it can mount a laser range finder and a manipulator claw) but it has a bigger brother which can be fitted with a "Metal Storm" multibarrelled grenade launcher capable of loosing off a devastating fusillade of 16 high explosive warheads in a fraction of a second.
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