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(CNN)It looked like a scene from science fiction.
Emerging from United States Air Force planes, four-legged robot dogs scampered onto an airfield in the Mojave Desert, offering a possible preview into the future of warfare.
But the exercise conducted last week, one of the US military's largest ever high-tech experiments, wasn't a movie set.
Flying into a possibly hostile airstrip aboard an Air Force C-130, the robot dogs were sent outside the aircraft to scout for threats before the humans inside would be exposed to them, according to an Air Force news release dated September 3.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/us/robot-dogs-us-air-force-test-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html
hlthe2b
(102,231 posts)"Scamper?"
That is irritating to me.
It's playful language that softens news about a deadly serious topic. These are not toys and they are not dogs.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)And I'm usually not bothered at all by the horror genre.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Chainfire
(17,531 posts)flotsam
(3,268 posts)Troop carriers of any kind are prime targets and thin-skinned aircraft are the prime target you would least like to be forced to stay in-an unarmored flying gas tank with extreme poor visibility of the surrounding hostile area. Any sane soldier would rather lie prone on the open tarmac (outside the blast perimeter if the plane were to explode) and then
either run or low crawl to cover...