Awesomesauce!
So they're getting ready to deploy the SWORDS version these fully armed and operational in IRAQ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON
They're about to see combat service for the first time. It's literally an FPS come to life. Some dude is sitting safely away from combat. Steering around a Big RC car like when he was a kid. Only this one has a Giant machine gun mounted on it. Best of all, they're cost efficient at 150,000 a pop with the ability to repair cheaply. Compare that to an infantryman that costs at least 100,000 to train. Plus You don't have to tell the robot's family that it died.
I want to see the looks on the faces of a group of enemy combatants, when the live troops are given orders to withdraw and these things roll in. Seriously, what do you do when your enemy stops sending live troops and sends machine after you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON
They're about to see combat service for the first time. It's literally an FPS come to life. Some dude is sitting safely away from combat. Steering around a Big RC car like when he was a kid. Only this one has a Giant machine gun mounted on it. Best of all, they're cost efficient at 150,000 a pop with the ability to repair cheaply. Compare that to an infantryman that costs at least 100,000 to train. Plus You don't have to tell the robot's family that it died.
I want to see the looks on the faces of a group of enemy combatants, when the live troops are given orders to withdraw and these things roll in. Seriously, what do you do when your enemy stops sending live troops and sends machine after you?