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Russian Army Expo Shows Off Robot Dog Carrying Rocket Launcher
Russian Army Expo Shows Off Robot Dog Carrying Rocket Launcher (pcmag.com) 48
Posted by msmash
on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:41PM from the how-about-that dept.›
It was a dog that accidentally destroyed our airbase. It was unfortunately smoking at the time.
I'd like to see it demonstrate how it gets up after falling over... while packing a fully-loaded RPG launcher.
I think I would rather have a robot cheetah with a rocket launcher. Those pesky Russians never seem to have high aims.
The Russian military industrial complex likes to boast about super high tech weapons in various expos, but it can't even get the basics right. The supposedly "best in the world" T14 Armata tank was supposed to be a super high tech ubertank, but they can't actually make them in numbers, nor do they have any way of integrating these weapons into battlefield strategies. They supposedly already have an unmanned land combat vehicle (the Uran 9), but it's been conspicuously absent from the battlefield despite its debut several years ago. Ukraine has exposed Russia as a Potemkin Army. They are buying drones from Iran out of desperation because with all that high tech stuff they supposedly have, they can't even establish air superiority against an adversary that barely has an air force to speak of.
As to this thing... you can buy Robot dogs knocking off the infamous Boston Dynamics one for under $1,000 of Amazon. Those are too small for anything more than a pistol, but I'm sure the Chinese will scale one up on a custom order. It wouldn't take much to strap an RPG-7 to one and use a servo to integrate a remote trigger. That doesn't mean it's actually a remotely effective weapon. But hey, it lets the Russians boast that they have high tech robo weapons!
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Oddly, the Soviet army in desperate WWII campaigns actually trained dogs to run underneath tanks and armored vehicles. Then they took them to the front and released them with explosive satchel charges and contact fuses strapped on their backs. Was seldom tried because the poor dogs were about as likely to run the Russian tanks as the nazi German ones. Death by man's best friendly fire. Or pet-rocide.
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Pretty much. Weapons salesmen are even less honest than used-car salesmen.
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I'm a big confused by the pictures. The floor mat says "ARMY" all over (stylized "A" with a star). In Roman characters, not Cyrillic. What is this military conference in Russia where English is the primary language, and what are native English speakers doing over there that isn't violating a lot of laws?
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That's all part of the Russian crazy environment. They borrow words from the language of their stated enemy and don't think twice. In the country where images of Lenin and Communist past live happily next to orthodox priests and churches which the former used to destroy, this is a very minor issue indeed.
I also assure you that virtually no one is a "native English speaker" (or even speaks English at a usable level) over there.-
They speak English where is required: in tourism. That is, hostels, hotels, airports, etc.
If you're outside a tourist context then they just speak Russian, because it's Russia after all. In the same way a russian will go to USA and start talking in Russian outside tourist locations, no one will speak in Russian.
Now, regarding contradictions... C'mon!... I mean... C'mon!!!
USA's last known contradiction: they turned to the Pariah Prince for Oil, not to mention that they even consider to turn to Maduro-
ah, right, the well known "US" tradition: whataboutism
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A meeting of arms traders. You are in fact looking at a Chinese made robot dog covered with a blanket. The arms market is quite international when your own best efforts extend to bolding a Canon DSLR onto a cheap hobby plane and call it a "military drone".
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With sanctions on Russia, they can maybe build ONE prototype of whatever they are trying to do. The rest will have to operate on lamps.
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Someone already tracked down the robodog product on AliExpress in the comments on the Twitter video linked in the summary.
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Even if they did just superglue a rocket launcher onto a Chinese Unitree Go1 robot https://shop.unitree.com/produ... [unitree.com] and then cover it in a blanket so you can't tell it wasn't Russian.
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The T-14 Armata is best at what it does, but what it does is obsolete. It's got absolutely zero protection against top-attack ATGMs like the Javelin, so they can't field them. They cost about $4M apiece to produce, and can be destroyed with a $78k Javelin. As you say, they can't even shoot anything without foreign components. Russia doesn't have the electronics manufacturing prowess to complete the design domestically. But that's fairly irrelevant, since they are utterly worthless against an opponent who ha
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