Re: Future of Tanks

Dan Holdsworth wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:46:26 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Swallow
<am.swallow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was popularly supposed to have said:


You can send your remote controlled vehicle ahead of your men and manned vehicles. 


If you're going to do that, you need something cheap, that survives
being shot fairly well and that when someone takes a pot at it, starts
dodging like mad and possibly shooting back with something aggravating
but not all that lethal; fine shotgun shot, say, or paintballs full of
skunk essence.

That way any fool who decides to have a go at the infernal machines of
the infidel soldiers gets to waste ammo, look a complete twerp in front
of his colleagues, and possibly even gets dead for his trouble, or at
the very least gives away his position.

Give the robot a second camera, that looks sideways and backwards, by replaying the recoding you may be able to spot where the sniper firing at the troops is hiding.

Andrew Swallow
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