Here’s the catch though. The 2,399 price is only for remote controlled version. The cost for one with AI bells and whistles is a lot higher.
PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency
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Here’s the catch though. The 2,399 price is only for remote controlled version. The cost for one with AI bells and whistles is a lot higher.
FriedRiceNSpice
Captain
Perhaps urban combat scenarios? Particularly inside buildings (where aerial drones cannot reach and you don't want to just level the building)?
That is a problem for all drones, it isn't unique to robo dogs.
They can be more precise/surgical than artillery, while being more quiet than flying drones. It's relatively easy to knock down a flying drone down, a robo dog would far more stable. Clearing a building would be far easier with one as well.
I’d imagine they could weigh more than a drone, so they could be packed with more explosives?
Ya, no need to send someone to throw a tank mine into a building.
Shi Haoyong 石好勇
Previously, he was the Vice Minister of the Ministry of State Security （国家安全部副部长）
During the 2016 North Korean nuclear crisis and the 2017 military tensions on the Korean Peninsula involving the U.S., he was assigned to a temporary post (挂职) in Yanbian prefecture (boarder between Jilin province and North Korea)
Now, he is a member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Provincial Party Committee（福建省委常委、省委政法委书记）
solarz
Brigadier
Their intended role as a suicide bomber is not clear to me. If they need to be surgical, then they must be able to identify their targets. Flying drones are mainly used for recon and anti-tank roles, therefore they don't have that problem.
If they don't need to be surgical, then why not just shell the location with artillery strikes?
What kind of explosives would you use to clear out a building? If it's a large amount, it will just demolish the building instead. If you use small amounts, then you would need a lot of robo dogs to clear out even a single building. I would think a gun-dog would be more useful in that role than a suicide-pup.
Robodogs are much more expensive than flying drones. I think flyers are more effective as suicide bombers. Robodogs would be more useful as remote controlled assault units. Even outfitting them with grenade launchers would make them more effective than suiciders.
No need to identify a target. GPS location or remote control can be used.
Guided artillery shells are more expensive. I think American ones cost more than $100k
How do you plant the explosives? Send someone over?
Robotic dogs can carry more load than drones with equivalent volume and are a lot more quiet.
Didn't post this, but Shugart's new Twitter thread on those landing barges
TLDR, there's more of them under construction, of various types
TLDR, there's more of them under construction, of various types
