Kalashnikov unveils 4.5 tonne bulletproof walking tank
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I'm going to take a different view than other people here to degree and say "not entirely", but not in the example you've given. Square-cube law is just going to make it impossible. Where it becomes different is in small mechs, pretty much autonomous applications exclusively (for now). I'm going to use the following video as an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gi6Ohnp9x8
Similarly weighed autonomous vehicles(?) aren't going to be able to navigate and react to extreme terrain conditions or disturbances in motion. There's even potential for walkers to be able to right themselves if they top over. But large tracked vehicles are already able to handle pretty extreme terrain (Without the enormous ground pressure a tank sized mech will have), so there's not much reason there.
Scaling up is exactly what these things don't do well. Think, for example, of the pressure smaller feet exert on the ground compared to tracks that spread the weight across a wider area.
Russia has this tendency to make stupid impractical sci-fi shit as a prototype to display their technological sophistication but it just comes off as dumb. It's like when North Korea claims to have a unicorn
I mean really the only practical military aspect of limb based movement is a very agile under-human sized android, that can function inside closed spaces that are meant for humans (aka open doors, go up stairs, climb up ladders). Even then, it would be quite expensive and rather fragile.
That would be absolutely sick. That one episode of Black Mirror in Season 4 got me thinking about small AI-controlled robits.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/215547/c8185a4c-78d7-482e-8d4a-dc157c424498/BLR_Keloid_Aaron_Beck_thugged_out_MINE.jpg
Aron Beck's concepts for Keloid were the tits
Is there footage of it moving or is it another hover tank?
It looks retarded. I really enjoy the massive open cockpit area prime for murderating anyone unlucky enough to be put inside it, and the extremely fragile, exposed joints.
The fucking thing looks ashamed of itself.
You know there is a reason the US Armed Forces haven't built something like this for obvious reasons.
I was reminded of their invincible tank with an energy shield
It probably walks proudly using the "I-Just-Shit-My-Pants Shuffle" like most large-ish robots.
I like how they had to bolt the feet to a baseplate to stop it from tipping over
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110042/8ad45428-dabb-4d76-9091-272d665dcac0/image~2.png
I'm having a very serious case of Spanish shame due to this.
They are making a fool out of themselves but I suffer too.
Imagine this beast combined with Boston Dynamics stabilization technology. That would make the thing a ton more terrifying. Now it looks like it would be like controlling an oversized old person
I wish this wasn't the case, It'd be great to see mechs in real life, but, it's fantasy right now.
Still wouldn't be very terrifying given a real tank round would take it out no matter where it hit, and it has no real method of fighting back
Mechs, power armor, exoskeletons and humanlike robots belong in scifi not real life. Adding more moving parts to a war machine will just increase costs all around for when the thing breaks.
All of that video makes me think of austin powers and doctor evil
Exoskeletons I disagree with, since that has applications in a number of different areas, imagine having a fully functional Exoskeleton, then giving the person wearing it a Minigun? Don't need a tank anymore, this guy just Terminators the shit out of everything.
I think Gecko's like in Metal Gear Solid 4 are going to be a thing one day. The U.S gov't would droll for killbots jumping around buildings skull fucking insurgents, and just seeing those Boston Dynamics videos makes me more sure of that everyday.
wow it's like an alpha literal earliest concept has to be 101% even better than final production
if DARPA made this shit y'all would be nutting truckloads
DARPA robots can move and don't need to be bolted to a plate to prevent their plastic windows from shattering after they fall over due to their massively fat metallic asses.
Scifi mechs, exos and robots belong back there, but I wouldn't rule things like that out entirely - they have some (theoretical) merit, and nothing says there isn't a way to make it practical. Practical versions of those things are certainly going to be a lot more boring though (and less).
I'd be pretty certain we'll see at least exoskeletons in the future, but they'd mostly just be used for lifting (i.e what DARPA has been working on).
If DARPA made this we'd be severely disappointed.
This is a publicity stunt. Nothing more.
Currently no. We lack the power source and light weight armor plating that would make the drawbacks worth it.
Theoretically they have some usage. Walking upright grants a significant advantage in target acquisition. While it also makes you MUCH easier to see, a high mobility mech can crouch and use cover/concealment far more effectively than tracked vehicles.
Other things like rapid weapon swapping could make for an interesting bit of functionality.
While tracked vehicles have a speed benefit, legs generally care less about the terrain they are in. One of the biggest killers of Abrams tanks in the middle east was open sewage ditches. They would easily wind up in a position from which they could not self recover. Legs aren't as fast, but care less about things like ditches.
But that is all a long way off in terms of tech and, even then, is questionably useful.
So can the Russian ones, this "robot" is just a concept.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/215547/ed8dd9b9-a36a-43af-b35e-34634302b012/Screen Shot 2018-08-23 at 14.56.19 copy.png
Man who the fuck writes these articles
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