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Thursday, 28 October 2010

Now you're talking

Northrop-Grumman looked at its new robot pack mule and decided that what it really needed was a .50-caliber M2 machine gun.

Things just got interesting.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousThursday, 28 October 2010 at 09:41:00 GMT-7

    Great, delivers vitally needed stores and ammunition. Then hunts for Sarah Connor...

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  2. Edgewise.SigmaThursday, 28 October 2010 at 12:45:00 GMT-7

    Any chance they could include on it audio speakers that would have British-accented voice screaming "Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"?

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  3. eonFriday, 29 October 2010 at 03:49:00 GMT-7

    The comments on the article said it best. This is a platform in search of a mission. Anything you could reasonably do with a remote-controlled gun system like this (IED disposal, etc.) is better done with something like a 240 Bravo (FN MAG) in 7.62 x 51 NATO that doesn't have such godawful over-penetration.

    I was waiting for some chairborne ranger at that show to suggest it could be used in a hostage situation. Well, you can send a remote weapon platform into a situation like that, if you want to (a) end up with dead hostages and (b) hand the tangos a fully-loaded support weapon.

    BTW, firing the M2 on this thing any direction other than dead ahead will probably tip it right over. Recoil, you know.

    cheers

    eon

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