Ukraine’s Gun-Armed Ground ‘Bot Just Cleared A Russian Trench In Kursk – The Fury is one of the first effective armed ground robots.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/09/19/ukraines-gun-armed-ground-robot-just-cleared-a-russian-trench-in-kursk/
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From the article
>Back in May, Ukrainian developers revealed a new armed ground robot—the Fury. Four months later, a Fury has fought—and reportedly won—the type’s first major skirmish. On or just before Thursday, one of the four-wheeled, shopping-cart-sized Furies assaulted a trench in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
>Dodging mines and firing its machine gun in coordination with explosive drones and mortars, the ’bot defeated a small group of Russian soldiers.
>“The result: part of the enemy was destroyed, the rest fled,” the 1st Detachment of the 8th Special Purpose Regiment, the ’bot’s operator, [announced on social media](https://t.me/ua_regteam/152). “The [robot] received several hits from RPGs and FPVs”—rocket-propelled grenades and first-person-view drones—“but persevered, completed the mission and returned to recovery.”
>The Fury is one of several armed unmanned ground vehicles Ukrainian engineers have developed in the 30 months since Russia widened its war on Ukraine—and one of the first types to see major combat. A Fury has four wheels, a radio for receiving operator commands, video cameras and a remotely-aimed machine gun. It’s thickly built with armor plates protecting its most vulnerable components.
It boggles my mind that it seems we’re just now making these when we’ve had remote control cars for decades.
Yes! Send several of them at once!
FPV drones too!!
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
Russia is one step ahead, now the use flying… [cows](https://www.reddit.com/r/DroneCombat/comments/1fktqpg/flying_russian_cow_with_radar_reflector_is_taken/)?!?!?!
I’m a bit skeptical. I’m not sure it’s that effective.
Yet.
War is hell. The sooner the war in Ukraine is over, the better.
While driving Russians out of Ukraine is a good thing, I seriously worry someone is currently building something that will become Skynet.
Kinda funny that in the future the military will just be playing a real life version of “world of tanks.”
Feel like this drone needs an upgrade to prevent flipping or rolling over.
A really slippery slope. When we remove the human aspect of war we become numb to its impact. We need to be extremely careful with this type of weapon.
War Robots are great as long as they are not shooting at you…
I feel like the part where
> The [robot] received several hits from RPGs and FPVs but persevered, completed the mission and returned to recovery
is slightly exaggerated
Ukraine continues to be a live-fire testing ground for whatever cyberpunk dystopian bullshit the oligarchy’s got in the pipeline? You don’t say.
Ukraine is out-innovating Russia. As the war nears the 3 year mark compounding innovation has the time to make a difference which a Blitzkrieg style war wouldn’t allow.
Necessity being the mother of invention has Ukraine being highly motivated and fast moving. Russia has always had a top down control and command system, both in the military and in the manufacturing industry and that system moves at the speed of reluctant bureaucrats.
Russia is still using mostly old near obsolete equipment, it had updated only a small portion of its armaments and none of its control structures.
Russia is 10 times the size of Ukraine in terms of population and has been fought to a standstill and is expected to lose due to now being reliant on cold war antiques and undertrained replacement troops.
Consider Operation Desert Storm, the Iraq shit kicking which lasted all of 7 months. At the start people were predicting massive allied losses because of the size of Iraq’s military. When it over the US lost fewer that 150 soldiers, the whole coalition fewer than 300. Iraqi military casualties estimated to be 12,000.
Why such a lopsided victory? Iraq was armed with Russian equipment and trained in the useless Russian command and control war fighting protocols.
If Putin was half as smart as he thinks he wins he would sue for peace with Ukraine before Ukraine gets long distance missiles and permission to use them against Moscow and St. Petersburg and exposes Russia as the Potemkin society that it really is.
The army has been experimenting with these for along time. Whether we have used them in combat in the same role as Ukraine is another story. I assume we used them in Iraq and Afghanistan.
All I can think of is imagining the Russian Commanders as Zap Brannigan, sending wave after wave of their own men into the Ukrainian killbots to hit their preset kill limit.
How is this allowed? Shouldn’t it be against some convention somewhere?
>“The result: part of the enemy was destroyed, the rest fled,” the 1st Detachment of the 8th Special Purpose Regiment, the ’bot’s operator, announced on social media. “The [robot] received several hits from RPGs and FPVs”—rocket-propelled grenades and first-person-view drones—“but persevered, completed the mission and returned to recovery.”
Holy shit it put in some serious work! At first I wasn’t impressed cause we have “RCs with gun” for a long time but this thing is a little mini tank!
This tech has been around for a while, but this is the first time I’ve heard of it being used in combat
[Robot tank](https://youtu.be/Ggg9lzF-dfw?si=UPtOxi_4sC5imU-o)
So apparently Skynet will be created by the Ukraine.
It will still devolve into a war of attrition. The lack of finance and warm bodies will decide the victor. War is not a fucking Sport.
people are cheering for this tech? i thought it was literally the worst thing people can make, and people were calling it evil and stuff like that when it was announced weeks ago, weird.
One of the first? Are we just ignoring that BattleBots then?
I give it approximately three years before we see this thing busting up protests with teargas cannister launchers and rubber bullet cannons.
looks like the future of warfare is just a real-life version of “Robot Wars” – where’s my popcorn? 🍿
[First?](https://paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/26/this-robot-tank-of-1945-was-a-look-at-the-future-of-war)
Russia did the same thing months ago with a whole fleet of them on a heavily defended Ukrainian position. This one looks a lot more refined than theirs though. Theirs looked more like BattleBots, this looks like an actual killing machine.
Ukraine war is where USA is testing all there new war tech
Watch as other nations react
Similar to the Spanish war