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Saturday, November 23, 2013

From your Nightmares

Why spend a few thousand dollars on some mules, when you can spend millions on a loud, creepy ass looking robot that is sure to break down and be the next Osprey

At least that's the idea I get watching this video of the Marines' testing the Legged Squad Support System. DARPA built the LS3 to act as an autonomous pack horse that "can carry 400 lbs of a squad’s load, follow squad members through rugged terrain and interact with troops in a natural way, similar to a trained animal and its handler."

Go watch the video, you can hear the engine on this things for hundreds of yards. Might as well just have the marines carry around trumpets and blow them every 5 seconds, it would be quieter and more tactically sound.

posted by davis14633 at 06:45

3 Comments:

Blogger Jar(egg)head said...

Good thing it's got camouflaged saddlebags...

13:17  
Blogger The Mad Builder of Periwinkle said...

Has anyone actually tried shooting at it just to see how quickly it turns into a $500,000 pile of broken burning metal...which has all your spare gear on it...did I mention the flames?

A T-100, this ain't.



15:32  
Blogger Jar(egg)head said...

Gaul tribesman used to light goats on fire and send them stampeding into the lines of Roman legions in an attempt to break up their formations. It didn't work obviously, as the well-disciplined legionnaires simply skewered the goats and saved them for the after-battle celebration dinner (pre-cooked goat! Early fast food).

However, their failure doesn't mean we shouldn't try it with RoboDonk here. Everything old is new again, after all. Strap some C-4 and a Koran to it and send it cavorting off into Achmed's cave complex. Even better than a bunker-piercing bomb. Maybe we could teach it to ululate before it explodes.

08:57  

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