Hey guys…

I’ve been talking about this threat for as long as I’ve owned this site.

The age of the automated hunter-killers is upon us. It’s a fact. We need to stop burying our heads in the dirt here, because the end of effective human combatants is in sight, at least in the traditional non-assisted format.

Witness this video, courtesy of the Chinese Government, who doubtless want the world to see their shiny new capability.

I guess these hell robot dogs cost about 2200USD a piece. Also, note that this is a public-facing, open-source video; what evil toys lay behind the dark curtain of their R&D shops?

Of course, one thing this vid does not show is the ‘bot hitting targets; the jury is out regarding the accuracy of this new weapons platform. However, if it’s even 50% accurate, this is a vast improvement over living, breathing, humans under fire. Also, there is no data for how hardened these hell dogs are to enemy fire. Will they fall apart with a few shots? How fast and maneuverable are they? Can they be easily jammed? There’s a lot of questions here.

However, you can pick this apart all you want, but the facts remain. The Chinese Army is fielding these, and they are a legit threat. Not in the future, now.

In earlier posts I’ve described how I’d use things like this to eviscerate an infantry unit at 0200 on some shitty, rainy night. This is no longer theoretical. In fact, I’d be shocked if the Chinese don’t flex a few of these nifty gadgets to the Russian Army in Ukraine, you know, just to try them out. Make a few notes here, a few improvements there, and presto, you have a traditional infantry neutralizer. Just like that.

Sigh. As stated on at least a hundred earlier occasions, we need AI assisted, human infantry powered armor. Period. The battlefields of today are already borderline unsurvivable for unaided infantry and armor, within the next decade they will be suicide.

Drones, hell dogs, smart mines, you name it. Go ahead. Pass all the laws and treaties you want, the enemies of the collective West will wipe their asses with them. It’s already happening in real time. Turn on the news, and then tell me I’m lying.

I’m not.

While we’re at it, let’s add modern nerve gas and tac nukes.

Unsurvivable I said, unsurvivable I mean.

Time for our policy makers to pull their heads out with a deafening “pop!” While we’re at it, we need to fire our defense industry oligarchs, because they suck. They cannot produce on demand, nor can they produce at speed. There is a real arms race, and we are losing it.

Deterrence prevents wars. Once an opponent is convinced, perhaps falsely, that he can win, then war becomes inevitable.

Don’t ever make the mistake of thinking that something can’t happen to you.

It can, and it will.

This Cassandra thing kind of sucks.