Posted on Apr 8, 2018
Robots Replace Soldiers in First Breaching Exercise of its Kind
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Not really ground breaking or earth shaking, puns intended. EOD has been using robots since the 1980s. Talons, Pacbots and Andros F6As (and recently a few newer systems) have been used on the battlefields for roadside IEDs and VBIEDs since Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom started. The Engineers are expanding the role but you still have to know where the hazard is to be effective. Sweeping an area for explosive hazards is very difficult and problematic at best.
As far as the video saying the Talon is man portable, I've carried and lifted it. It weighs 150-200+ pounds depending on the set-up. Man portable my ass! LOL
As far as the video saying the Talon is man portable, I've carried and lifted it. It weighs 150-200+ pounds depending on the set-up. Man portable my ass! LOL
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TSgt David L.
CW5 Jack Cardwell - I'll tell you, you don't pack it too far! We had it get tangled up in crap in Kirkuk City and I had to go rescue it. I wasn't in the bomb suit thankfully, just normal body armor. I think a person could back pack it for a ways but to carry it out in front of you is killer. I got it free and carried around the fencing and crap that was on the ground. Had to set it down a few times to go the 60 feet or so out of the tangle. THEN had to go back and finish the IED with the "help" of the robot! LOL
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A1C Ian Williams
Sir, there are eventualities and inevitabilites Capt Daniel Goodman War in our lifetime does not move backward in the scale of technology used, it moves forward.
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Better to have smaller scouts as targets, then to send in a person.
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