Unmanned Combat Ground Vehicle
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In fact whether that thing finds you or you find it first, you will be forced to engage to try destroy it because it's too risky letting a gun carrying platform slip by and risk loosing track of where it is and what it is doing.
So maybe one of if not the main purpose of this platform is to draw out enemy fire. Also explains why it's not mounted with a custom and much more expensive machine gun mount. It was never expected to hold its ground or for prolonged engagements.
So maybe one of if not the main purpose of this platform is to draw out enemy fire. Also explains why it's not mounted with a custom and much more expensive machine gun mount. It was never expected to hold its ground or for prolonged engagements.
Would be nice if you could mount a mini CIWS on top to take care of incoming enemy mortar roundsHere's the real thing mounting a dummy QBZ-95.
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What? Please stop replying to my posts. I don't have time.
If the purpose is to draw enemy fire, this would be an insanely expensive solution compared to a UAV, FYI 'good' civilian LIDARS run into the thousands of dollars, enough to buy 5+ dji mavic mini and duct tape a 40mm grenade on to it, every single one of those robot dogs would be easy to disable, and maintenance heavy in a battle environment due to the large amount of dust and debris kicking about. UAV would be even better at drawing fire since at the scales I'm thinking of (big enough to carry 1 frag grenade), a good pilot can fly it fast and low enough that it'll virtually impossible for infantry to reliably shoot it down.
I think the Ideal use for logistics UGVs is having them autonomously follow a lead truck in a convoy, greatly increasing the load capacity while also being flexible enough that when anything goes wrong a crew can fix it. Then there can be a minimal amount of electronic emission as it will only need to communicate with the lead truck rather than base station, increasing survivability.
But enough time to bother replying nonsense?
You're missing the biggest advantage of ground travel vs air travel--energy efficiency. A Mavic 3 can fly for 30-40 mins carrying just the on board camera. It has a weight of 900 grams and MTOW of 1100 grams, so a weight carrying capacity of 200 grams. A single M67 grenade weighs 400 grams.
This robot dog can probably run for a couple hours carrying multiple kilograms of arms and ordnance.
Mmmm, I’m not sure we are looking at this in the right way.
If they are testing the robot dog with a gun mounted then we can speculate about how good a shot that dog would be. Considering it’s huge (for a gun) LiDAR and Chinas prowess in such things, I would suggest that it is a very good shot indeed.
So, if the LiDAR can spot you then the bullets can hit you. I doubt it would miss often.
The dog is probably pretty fast too. And that LiDAR can see in the dark, and it may even be able to trace the bullets in flight.
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I'm not implying it's not a good shoot, it's gonna be shoot and scoot. Or shoot and hide. And it can employ wolfpack strategy.
LiDAR can also be hooked into a intel network, mapping out the environment in real time as the dogs travel.
Then you'll have the environment map as well as possible enemy locations.
Also easier to see where you are being shot at from the ground than the air.
Pretty sure if it can trace your bullets it can trace enemy bullets, you'll know their location. Let the dog to fire back to where the bullet paths originated.
LiDAR can also be hooked into a intel network, mapping out the environment in real time as the dogs travel.
Then you'll have the environment map as well as possible enemy locations.
Also easier to see where you are being shot at from the ground than the air.
Pretty sure if it can trace your bullets it can trace enemy bullets, you'll know their location. Let the dog to fire back to where the bullet paths originated.