Ukrainian versatile unmanned combat vehicle undergoes frontline testing : ukraine

[+] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] thanksforallthefish 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aerial and aquatic drones have been very succesful in this war, why not terrestial ?

[–] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

At the very least, you're not losing a crew every time a vehicle like this gets destroyed. Seems logical to pursue when you need every experienced operator you can get

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because in those two previously mentioned environments, you can move in all 6 dimensions and it's the same thing, a fluid.

terrestrial is the interface between a fluid and a solid surface. Solid surfaces are super tricky.

[–] thanksforallthefish 1 points 1 year ago

RC cars seem to work fairly well. Human driven vehicles work fine. People play car driving PC games (Forza etc) Hell Ukraine has already fitted tractors & Combine Harvesters with remote control tech because of mines.

Why is this so different ?

[–] sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

thanks for the giggle. i don't expect much here, but let's see what happens.

[–] Kurwailija@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that the huge technological advance stage? :) Im quessing there will be lots of wartime proven technology for sale when ukraine gets its borders back and UN and its allies make a new neutral sector between them and russia

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to see mobile armor mechs with duck feet for the mud season.

Not necessarily technological "advance" but technological "was that really necessary?".

[–] Kurwailija@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That would absolutely be necessary! I can already see the duckfeet doing riverdance on mines!

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Russia will veto anything the UN tries to do.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The earlier terminator models looked cooler.

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those were robots. This is a drone, not a robot. 0% autonomous.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Fair

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah. A giant remote-controlled vehicle with a .50 attached to it? Lmao. Genius

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

C&C Generals predicting the future again

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

20 km/h max for such a light vehicle? That seems like not enough.

[–] Kurwailija@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Unmanned plus getting its signal through satellite propably so that normal radio disturbance wont work.

[–] Nucelar@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They need a big wheel with spikes and fire that can just run over a trench

[–] loops@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

and giant speakers to blast Flight of the Valkyries while doing so.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mobile suit Gundam but with big duck feet for mud season