Unmanned Combat Ground Vehicle

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
I don't know if it's real but look at the supposed "microwave" attacks on US diplomatic staffs. That's suppose to be causing long lasting damage on people targeted. It has to be portable and it has somewhat of a range and an area of affect. Can it be placed on a robot dog to sneak up on an enemy or lie in wait? The enemy will not know it's happening.
 

SanWenYu

Captain
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I don't know if it's real but look at the supposed "microwave" attacks on US diplomatic staffs. That's suppose to be causing long lasting damage on people targeted. It has to be portable and it has somewhat of a range and an area of affect. Can it be placed on a robot dog to sneak up on an enemy or lie in wait? The enemy will not know it's happening.
It's a lie. According to
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In January 2022, the
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issued an interim assessment concluding that the syndrome is not the result of "a sustained global campaign by a hostile power". Foreign involvement was ruled out in 976 cases of the 1,000 reviewed.
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In February 2022, a panel of experts assembled by the Biden administration released an executive summary stating that stress or psychosomatic reactions could not explain some of the incidents of Havana syndrome it had reviewed, and that radio waves could have caused some of the injuries of the CIA officers and diplomats.
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At roughly the same time, the State Department commissioned the
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to investigate the cause. In February 2022, the State Department released the JASON report, which stated that it was unlikely that a directed energy attack had caused the health incidents.
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In March 2023, seven U.S. intelligence agencies completed a review of the proposed cases of Havana syndrome and released an unclassified report with the consensus that "available intelligence consistently points against the involvement of US adversaries in causing the reported incidents" and that a foreign adversary's involvement was "very unlikely".
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Despite this report,
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-funded experiments which attempted to recreate Havana syndrome in animals by exposing them to
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waves for extended periods continued.
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In January 2022, Ryan Cooper critiqued news coverage, writing in
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that there is "shame on the great many journalists and members of Congress who stoked inflammatory, implausible claims about magic Russian ray guns".
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Robert Bartholomew, a
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specializing in
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, has dismissed
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reports of a "smoking gun" connecting Havana syndrome to a foreign power or technology: "there is only smoke and mirrors generated by bad science and poor journalism".
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In an interview with
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,
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's Natalie Shure said it was a "red flag" as to its credibility that "this story was being almost exclusively pushed by national security reporters and not by people who report on health topics".
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Psychologist
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reported that media coverage of the JAMA studies reinforced the idea that embassy workers had suffered brain damage, and that if the mass psychogenic illness interpretation of Havana syndrome is correct, this may create obstacles to recovery because "people who think they have suffered brain injury are likely to assume they will be permanently affected and to attribute any symptoms they experience to their damaged brains. In contrast, acceptance of the psychogenic interpretation could facilitate recovery."
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by78

General
Some images from an emergency communication support exercise for large-scale disasters.

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_killuminati_

Senior Member
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I'm skeptical of the blinding idea.

Firstly, millions of lasers have been pointed at pilots and police over the decades. How many have suffered permanent blindness? Very few, perhaps zero.

The Hong Kong rioters spent half a year furiously pointing lasers at police. Not a single police officer went blind.

Secondly, what about cost? Equipping the UCGV with a machine gun is pretty cheap. Say we equip the UCGV with a super-laser weapon (which currently doesn't exist). Would this hypothetical super-laser have a similar price as a machine gun?

Finally, I'm skeptical about battlefield utility. Soldiers move their heads a lot in combat. For a soldier to be blinded, his pupils have to position themselves at the correct angle and orientation towards the UCGV. This is not necessarily common.

Why not just send a bullet at his head and be done with it? Simpler, faster, cheaper, and has worked well for centuries.
Maybe the biggest drawback is a laser guided munition riding the beam to the origin of the laser.
 

tankphobia

Senior Member
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Why breech with humans and robot. Why not just use robot only?
Because you always need a man in the loop. I don't think China is ready to take that step where giving autonomous robots the ability to self identify targets and kill potentially non-combatants without someone controlling the robot. So someone will always need to be somewhat close to control it since reception in a combat environment is bad.
 
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