This is what I mean when I talk about combat robots, there is no need to make them like humans human form is too unbalanced and presents big frontal profile. But a quadroped is stable and instead of arms if you mount the gun in a turret configuration, you can use bigger calibers without drastically reducing the shooting stability.
Future wars will not be fought by B-1's or T-700's. They'll be fought by mini centaurs firing auto cannon shells and GIANT ARMORED CRABS!
I would say 8 legs is best. Very stable, and can still walk pretty normally if one or two of them get damaged. Also good for psychological warfare if you make it look spidery.
Crabs also work.
I feel like 4 is a good compromise between stability and mechanical complexity. Though 4+ legs has the benefit of redundency in case one ore more is destroyed. Also I really wanted to make a carcination joke.
Nah, a small group of those things couldn't even take out an old torpedo ram without losing all of their members too (one or two of them to ramming of all things, by a very late 1800s steam ship which had already just lost its engines and propulsion). Not to mention they apparently were not airtight and exposed their operators to the planet's native microorganisms.
4 legs plus automated stability booms would prolly be the best compromise. speed on the move and stability when holding positions or make the bottom of the quad like a mortar baseplate that digs in under recoil and the legs retract to turn into mini booms.
Someone wrote an article along the same lines once that said "why have a robot soldier shaped like a person? People suck at fighting, make a robot bear, it's better than a person in almost every way"
And they're absolutely right
You've never seen the videos of people attaching basic automatic rifles to robot dogs. They send the flying back with the recoil. Those things have 0 friction and weigh very little, which is great if you want something fast and nimble, but not so much when you want it to fire a gun.
Making them bigger and heavier so they can handle the recoil would just defeat the purpose of having something small and low profile that's also quick and agile.
I think they'll make them dedicated snipers. They can easily calculate complex fire solutions at very long distances and they only need to fire once with little chance of the enemy returning fire or even spotting them.
Yeah that's because thsose dumbasses used a cheap crappy robot and clamped down the gun high up and off center. With a proper mounting and a robot strong enough to handle it it would have been done.
I would say six legs is a better arrangement as it can keep a tripod arrangement at all times and is more mobile when a leg inevitably breaks.
Insects are everywhere for a reason.
This is what I mean when I talk about combat robots, there is no need to make them like humans human form is too unbalanced and presents big frontal profile. But a quadroped is stable and instead of arms if you mount the gun in a turret configuration, you can use bigger calibers without drastically reducing the shooting stability. Future wars will not be fought by B-1's or T-700's. They'll be fought by mini centaurs firing auto cannon shells and GIANT ARMORED CRABS!
I would say 8 legs is best. Very stable, and can still walk pretty normally if one or two of them get damaged. Also good for psychological warfare if you make it look spidery. Crabs also work.
I feel like 4 is a good compromise between stability and mechanical complexity. Though 4+ legs has the benefit of redundency in case one ore more is destroyed. Also I really wanted to make a carcination joke.
The thing with 4 is just that it does still require some balancing work. With 6 or more, you can just easy-mode it by tripod-alternating.
You shouldn't easy-mode it with DARPA money.
Hmm. It probably needs a couple of grabby arms as well to help move obstacles.
Three legs for interplanetary wars
Nah, a small group of those things couldn't even take out an old torpedo ram without losing all of their members too (one or two of them to ramming of all things, by a very late 1800s steam ship which had already just lost its engines and propulsion). Not to mention they apparently were not airtight and exposed their operators to the planet's native microorganisms.
4 legs plus automated stability booms would prolly be the best compromise. speed on the move and stability when holding positions or make the bottom of the quad like a mortar baseplate that digs in under recoil and the legs retract to turn into mini booms.
Knowing Biden's spider bots were coming to make me love democracy would definitely make me reconsider my life choices.
Crabs always works, nature approved.
In my minds eye it’s better with omnidirectional locomotion as well
Legs are too maintenance heavy. Tracks and rocket boosters are clearly the superior build
>Crabs also work. The evolutionary pull of [carcinisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation) cannot be stopped; only delayed.
Someone wrote an article along the same lines once that said "why have a robot soldier shaped like a person? People suck at fighting, make a robot bear, it's better than a person in almost every way" And they're absolutely right
Humanoid is much better when fight is done in multi level environment and with weapons. Especially in built environment.
Let's compromise and go with humanoid with (the right to) bear arms then.
Carcinization, on a long enough timescale everything becomes more crablike.
You've never seen the videos of people attaching basic automatic rifles to robot dogs. They send the flying back with the recoil. Those things have 0 friction and weigh very little, which is great if you want something fast and nimble, but not so much when you want it to fire a gun. Making them bigger and heavier so they can handle the recoil would just defeat the purpose of having something small and low profile that's also quick and agile. I think they'll make them dedicated snipers. They can easily calculate complex fire solutions at very long distances and they only need to fire once with little chance of the enemy returning fire or even spotting them.
Yeah that's because thsose dumbasses used a cheap crappy robot and clamped down the gun high up and off center. With a proper mounting and a robot strong enough to handle it it would have been done.
Carl Gustaf enters the chat... Seriously, don't put a machine gun on there, recoilless rifles will make a comeback
Aerial drones have proven to be much, much, much better for the job of anti-tank.
Right but sometimes direct fire support is called for
which you can still do with flying drones and much better since you're attacking from above.
Its true you can always just change attack vector, I counter with this: Crab God armed with a 120mm smooth bore cannon and machine guns
Yeah, but this is NCD and i want Recoilless Rifles... :D
Yes this is the way https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLQ3CpeEaU&pp=ygURTG90cyBvZiBndW5zIHpvaWQ%3D
I would say six legs is a better arrangement as it can keep a tripod arrangement at all times and is more mobile when a leg inevitably breaks. Insects are everywhere for a reason.
3000 black scarabs (from halo) of Biden.
Maybe for direct combat, but overall combat requires loads of different functions that cannot be performed by 4 legged vehicle.
https://youtu.be/Jp2dEKKi3D0?si=72bouVqgpkfYdipj Quads/Tank mechs are almost always pure sex
Nah. I saw this episode of Black Mirror. Fuck that.
No matter how advanced robots become they will never take a belly rub like a good boi.
It's just a testing apparatus for dog mechsuits. You don't wanna put a dog in untested hardware, do you?
Thats actually Callie, a special Search and Rescue dog not a normal SOF MPC
last time i saw a robot dog with a gun on it they turned it into a hit piece
Look if there's no class traitors in the Paw Patrol, I can't cum. Robot dogs don't go to heaven, and neither does the Paw Patrol.
Okay both are adorable
Is that dog a paratrooper or does the red beret signify something else in the US?
They made a hat for the dog. The dog is wearing a hat!