Originally published at: US Army to run battle simulations between groups of robotic tanks | Boing Boing
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In retrospect it’s kind of odd that they don’t have unmanned tanks already, autonomous or otherwise. It can’t be that much trickier to figure out than UAVs.
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Navigation may be the difficult part since the vehicle must be on the ground (unless it falls off a cliff).
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Yeah but is driving a tank by remote control really that much trickier than driving it from inside? I can imagine with the right camera/display setup you might actually get a better view of the action than if you were physically sitting in the thing.
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Do we want OGREs? Because this is how you get OGREs
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I hope they’re doing the simulations within a computer and not in stupidly expensive real life, like the rest of their trillion-dollar war adventure of bombers and missiles and ships that are obsolete before they even christen them, and fighter planes that suffocate pilots in their $450,000 bespoke helmets and reboot and crash into the sea because they crossed the international date line, or explode in flames from idling on the runway for ten minutes. Can there be anything easier about war to simulate than a bunch of tanks? See, for example, the many popular video games on the subject. With tanks in them.
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Tanks a lot, USA…
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Give them an excuse to team up against us, why don’t you?
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Came to post this. I already spent much of 4th grade running the same simulations. Generally doesn’t end well.
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where did the image accompanying the story come from? it looks just like the mock-up screen shots found in 70’s era Sears catalogs.
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I’ve always wanted to play it. I’ll start looking for archive or modern day clone of it.
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At least a robotic tank that malfunctions doesn’t fall from the sky. It just…stops and can be reused after the fault has been found.
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Have a seat and let me tell you about ye olde Atari 2600, which came bundled with the game Combat…
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Or, you know, use this as an excuse to buy literal expensive toys.
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ogres , sure , but also bolos , this is how you get bolos !!
kewlio !!
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Faro Automated Systems, anyone?
Aloy locates the remnants of the company Faro Automated Solutions and discovers that the old world was destroyed nearly 1,000 years ago after Faro lost control of its automated “peacekeeper” military robots. The robots, which could self-replicate and consumed biomass as fuel, overran the planet and consumed the biosphere, stripping Earth of all life.
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Will they include the UFO?
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Scored, of course, on Style, Control, Damage and Aggression.
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