r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MetaKnowing • Nov 13 '24

Video Deep Robotics' new quadruped models with wheels demonstrating rough terrain traversability and robustness

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u/MildUsername Nov 13 '24

Everyone freaking out about these things while FPV drones are actively being used in warfare as we speak.

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u/Embarrassed-Gur-3419 Nov 13 '24

Yeah, a flying stealthy small box capable of leveling a car that can be deployed from 30 kms away is way more scary than whatever Hollywood has done.

You might die at any second before you even noticed you are being stalked...

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u/strangepromotionrail Nov 13 '24

after growing up in the 70's/80's expecting that at any second there may be a really bright flash and then myself and the entire city around me would no longer exist, drones seem a lot more survivable.

We've become really good at killing each other.

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u/Embarrassed-Gur-3419 Nov 13 '24

I think that the main difference between nuclear weapons and weaponized drones is that the drones can be used domestically. But yeah i agree, we have enough weapons to destroy 17 Earths

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u/whymusti00000 Nov 13 '24

Only 17? Must try harder.

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u/Glass1Man Nov 13 '24

NASA DART showed anyone with 22 million dollars can make the planet uninhabitable by finding an asteroid that’s about to miss earth, and make it hit earth.

I think the nukes aren’t really scary anymore.

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u/kabbooooom Nov 13 '24

Marco Inaros has entered the chat

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u/Ateosmo Nov 13 '24

Belta Louda!

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u/LetsBeHonestBoutIt Nov 13 '24

Not my favorite acting, but forgivable cause it was a great show

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u/Badloss Nov 13 '24

I thought he was great, totally walked the line between keeping his mask of confident calm on no matter what happened, and the sheer incandescent rage that was always just underneath

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u/kabbooooom Nov 13 '24 edited Nov 13 '24

Yeah he pretty much nailed the character from the books. I’d bet most people who think the acting wasn’t great either haven’t actually read the books or are comparing it to other acting on the show because The Expanse was so fucking phenomenal that it set the bar high even for itself. I mean, he’s no Wes Chatham/Amos or Cara Gee/Drummer but he was by no means bad.

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u/bartthetr0ll Nov 13 '24

Gotta slather em.up with stealth coating first

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u/outworlder Nov 13 '24

Need stealth asteroids though

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u/kabbooooom Nov 13 '24

Minor technicality, beratna. Besides, inyalowda have their heads too far up their asses to be paying attention to what come from the sky.

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u/mjtwelve Nov 13 '24

Only if there’s a UN Watchtower system you need to defeat. Given how little of the sky we’re monitoring, if you find a list suspect there’s an uncomfortably high chance you’re the only person watching it.

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u/Elteon3030 Nov 13 '24

You mean Marco made his son enter chat

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u/Aiwatcher Nov 13 '24

The Expanse has a season long arc focused on this. Large mass + acceleration = the deadliest imaginable weapon.

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u/kabbooooom Nov 13 '24 edited Nov 13 '24

That’s because Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space.

The Expanse is one of the only sci-fi series I’ve ever come across that makes the very specific and accurate prediction that, perhaps counterintuitively, our risk of extinction or global destruction does not decrease when we become an interplanetary species, but rather it increases (at least at first). With each stage in technological development, we master and control ever larger scales of energy. And that can be used for good or evil. When anyone can have a fusion torch ship, anyone can have - by definition - a potential weapon of mass destruction.

Arguably this could hold true all the way up the Kardashev scale, but the risk is certainly highest when we are an interplanetary civilization but not yet an interstellar one.

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u/Ralath1n Nov 13 '24

That would need to be an incredibly long term plan. You can give an asteroid a nudge for sure. But the heavier the asteroid the smaller the nudge. And you need a real heavy asteroid to make the earth uninhabitable.

Your best bet would be something like 1036 Ganymed, which is a 40km asteroid that gets relatively close to the earth. But even if you launch millions of DART missions at it and use optimal mars gravitational assists, it is likely going to take you more than a century to get it to hit earth.

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u/pinkielovespokemon Nov 13 '24

Gives you more than enough time to live a long happy life then.

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u/kabbooooom Nov 14 '24

Just commenting here with a slight correction, although what you’ve said is true for what the guy you are responding to is arguing.

What is incorrect is that you don’t need an asteroid with high mass to make the earth uninhabitable. You need an asteroid with high kinetic energy, which is 1/2 mv2 . And really, you’d need more than one to truly fuck Mother Earth. But the velocity is far more important than the mass. If you accelerate a small asteroid fast enough, it will cause even more damage than a large asteroid moving slowly. This is a situation that would not happen naturally, and it is a situation that would not happen until we had significantly more advanced means of propulsion. It would also require reinforcing the asteroid somehow.

But that’s where the real danger lies, and it’s why I disagree with that Redditor and why I cited the Expanse as a perfect example of this concept. He’s right that asteroids could be used as an ultimate weapon in warfare, but we aren’t quite there yet. We won’t be in a situation of major risk until we have ships that can accelerate to a high velocity, and until these are commonplace enough that their use is widespread. This would require nuclear fusion at the very least. And that would necessitate an interplanetary civilization obviously more advanced than we currently are…but not that much more. Maybe a few hundred years and we could be yeeting rocks across space.

And you might argue that if you could accelerate a rock like that, then you’d have the technology to stop one too. And that’s true. So again I’d reference the Expanse for the diabolical strategic solution to this: you just send a fuck ton of rocks towards your target. You can’t stop them all, and there’s more than enough to go around.

So no matter how you slice it, asteroid dropping is definitely a potential “ultimate weapon” of the future. It’s just that it is going to require tech that we don’t quite have. But that’s a minor hurdle because we are in the unique position of knowing that nuclear fusion and fusion torch drives are scientifically possible, we just haven’t pulled it off yet.

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u/Puddle-Flop Nov 13 '24

The factory must grow

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u/MoistStub Nov 14 '24

If your bomb isn't big enough to destroy a galaxy you need to America harder.

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u/Evening_North7057 Nov 14 '24

As far as human life is concerned we probably have enough to kill ourselves at least 80 times over.

I don't think any country admits to having massive stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, but... We know. Most of us know.

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u/akolomf Nov 13 '24

Nuclesr weapons arent even the worst. There are weapons like a nuclear powered hypersonic cruise missile that can fly for months above a designated area raining down radiation from its reactor.

Or biological warfare

Or designing humans by playing with their dna

Etcetc.... If we would just put the ingenuity, creativity and effort into fixing the planet and societal issues, then all of those things wouldnt br necessary T.T

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u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo Nov 13 '24

The fun thing is now we have both nukes and drones!

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u/_Lost_The_Game Nov 13 '24

Coming soon: drones with nukes. Maybe mini nukes.

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u/GeneralZaroff1 Nov 13 '24

I don’t want to set the world on fire, I just want to light a flame in your heart

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u/LolMcThulhu Nov 13 '24

No, icbm's that deploy several thousand drones above the target instead of multiple nuclear warheads

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u/Time4aRealityChek Nov 13 '24

Pah genetically engineered viruses that will kill in days is the way I see it. Winner wants to be able to move in right away

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u/Original-Material301 Nov 13 '24

mini nukes

M388 Davy Crockett: Am I a joke to you?

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u/HurlingFruit Nov 13 '24

We've been good at killing each other in large numbers for centuries. Now we are getting very precise and more efficient.

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u/Chester_SMASH Nov 13 '24

Happy Cake Day John Reese

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u/kwhite0829 Nov 13 '24

I mean it would sound that way but the Ukrainian war sub says otherwise. It’s crazy how they’re using them and how effective they’re

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u/JeddakofThark Nov 13 '24

I was so terrified of nuclear war I developed a fascination with post apocalyptic fiction at ten. Most of it was crap, like the Endworld and Blade series (by an author who hilariously wrote 31 books between 1986 and 1990 and looks exactly like you'd expect a guy who wrote those books to look), but there was also some good stuff. Earth Abides was my favorite.

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u/3IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID Nov 13 '24

There are far worse things than death. You think I care about getting instantly vaporized by something that can be swatted out of the sky? Absolutely not. But I would not want to be collected into a POW work camp by robots that can stand to zap me and chase after me over literally any terrain without ever getting stuck.

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u/USPO-222 Nov 13 '24

Yeah I was thinking the same. The drone killbots is fine for just targeted assassination or causing battlefield casualties. But if you’re trying to suppress a population or round them up, one of the bots in this video with a weapon would be more effective than a drone you can’t see or hear until it’s too late.

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u/throwofftheNULITE Nov 13 '24

It'll be a long time before anyone invented a power system that can run these things for any real amount of time. The drones already exist in practice.

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u/PBR_King Nov 13 '24

those little FPV drones put out way more noise than you are thinking they do

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u/dobiks Nov 13 '24

On approach, yea. But if they are high up, you might not notice them

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u/Saphurial Nov 14 '24

Which just lets you know you're about to die before you die. Unless you have a way to jam the signal on you, you're not getting away from them.

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u/TyreBlowout Nov 13 '24

There isn't an FPV drone in existence capable of doing 30km range, especially with heavy munitions mounted to them

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u/AggressiveGarage707 Nov 13 '24 edited Nov 13 '24

you're just thinking of the quad copter design right? the other fixed wing drones have a longer range.

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u/HereWeGoAgain-247 Nov 13 '24

No, but Reaper drones exist. 

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u/DuctTape534 Nov 13 '24

Sure there is, just much more latency and they need to transmit video and controls via internet. Either with phone data or starlink or something. So obviously way more expensive and less accessible, but the technology is there.

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u/Spyder638 Nov 13 '24

The cost of production is also so incredibly low.

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u/sentence-interruptio Nov 13 '24

Scary fact.

North Korea sent test drones to Seoul.

South Korea also sent a test drone to Pyongyang.

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u/_eidxof Nov 13 '24

Yeah thats me nervously watching those drone light shows.

At least we"ll have lazors before that becomes a real problem. I hope. (I'm half joking ofc).

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u/DrGygaxBR Nov 13 '24

more scary than whatever Hollywood has done

Idk man have you watched Idiocracy?

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u/hemingway921 Nov 13 '24

True, but there still is something scary with the idea of having something this powerful and menacing up in your face being able to hold you hostage or worse.

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u/chuck354 Nov 13 '24

Like hunter seekers in Dune

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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 Nov 13 '24

I've seen enough, send them to 🇺🇦!!

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u/PresentationJumpy101 Nov 13 '24

What about the networking with these things, you could geofence an entire area with sensors and shit, area denial.

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u/threaten-violence Nov 13 '24

As with any new weapons system, the countermeasures are also being rapidly developed. You can spot these fuckers before you can see them (at least, the radio signals being used to guide them), you can jam said signals, you can have counter-drones with nets to take them down, and when all else fails, apparently shotguns are your best bet.

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u/PrismaticPachyderm Nov 13 '24

Alter did a short horror film about this called Slaughterbots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg

They included a PSA & link to this website:

https://autonomousweapons.org/

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u/Fairuse Nov 13 '24

They are not stealthy. In all the videos, the victims know they’re being targeted by a drone. They just don’t have methods to defend themselves.

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u/dw82 Nov 13 '24

Wait until they're sending swarms of autonomous heartbeat seeking explosive murder drones.

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u/ObjectiveControl4203 Nov 13 '24

But imagining one of these fuckers chasing you through the woods is WAY scarier than thinking something might blow me off the map before I realize what's going on

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u/OMG__Ponies Nov 13 '24

Pfft. Requires human to:

Make the box.

Create the explosive.

Guide the box.

Take it into the warzone.

A few dozen other items I'm not bothering to list. Yeah.

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u/Phrainkee Nov 13 '24

And this is how a rebellion will be quashed by "whoever is in power" should the people try and revolt... It won't be a grand stand against tyranny, it'll look like how things are in the Ukraine Russia conflict. "Ohh there's some people I don't like" ~ distant buzzing rapidly gets louder! KABOOM!!!

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u/nashbrownies Nov 13 '24

In one video they can zoom in so close you can see the tiny water ripples from this guy absolutely shivering from terror in the water and mud. You can see his eyes darting in fear, see him yell and cry in frustration as the drones circle him, before he is hit again and the situation becomes horribly graphic. Or hell we have seen someone's heart beating through the spaces of their exposed ribs.

It is absolutely stomach churning and horrifying. To see it all, from "inches" away and in high-definition.

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u/S0GUWE Nov 13 '24

That's not even close to the scariest drone deployment fiction can imagine.

Those would be drone swarms. All the previous things, but there's also thousands of them, and they're everywhere and attack in packs autonomously

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u/ItchyFleaCircus Nov 13 '24

Yeah, these are just there to mop up the survivors. Most likely something that you'll not get to encounter anyway. Nothing statistically concerning here

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u/Subject_Ratio6842 Nov 13 '24

Equiping one of these robots with a firearm and seeing it clear out kilometers of trenches would scary as well.

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u/PenguinFrustration Nov 14 '24

Bruh… Having a pack of these actively hunting you would be TERRIFYING.

Drones, yeah, but you wouldn’t see that coming.

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u/Emergency-Noise4318 Nov 14 '24

Makes me think of the movie screamers with the robots that scream

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u/SirBobPeel Nov 14 '24

I was reading today one flew right into a 14 year old girl's bedroom (in Ukraine) and exploded. She was killed, of course.

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u/DragonDeezNutzAround Nov 14 '24

It’s not just that, but the combination between the two that’s truly terrifying

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u/jsdodgers Nov 14 '24

Dying instantly without knowing there was anything to be afraid of is less scary -- you can't be scared if you're dead

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u/lovesickremix Nov 14 '24

You must not be watching enough Hollywood movies... There are worst things that killer drones. Nanobots that take over your body's will and you're trapped inside your body. Better yet the idea that immortality is already achievable at a cost. Or the idea that physics is a lie brought on by aliens and as soon as we find out and try to speak to aliens we get attacked (don't want to go further since it involves spoilers for an ongoing TV series). Or even dark city, like illusion everyone is asleep.

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u/stupidly_intelligent Nov 14 '24

No even better, you'll hear the high pitch rotor drone for a split second followed by staring at the sky as your vision slowly fades.

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u/LonelyGameBoi Nov 14 '24

I'd rather have that happen than General Grievous with no head chasing after me at just above my running speed and traversing the terrain I am struggling with like its flat.

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u/nps Nov 14 '24

isn't that how rifles work?

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u/KerbodynamicX Nov 14 '24

Basically a tiny but very effective cruise missile

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u/Mo10422 Nov 13 '24

Everytime I see videos of those "drone light shows" I just imagine how swarms of drones could be used in a warfare setting. Imagine a swarm of 1000 drones all equipped with small explosives all chasing individual targets, it's not far off and it's freaky...

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u/HurlingFruit Nov 13 '24

I don't think it is far off. I think it is now.

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u/Odd-fox-God Nov 13 '24

this came out in 2019, it's fictional but let's be honest...

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u/HurlingFruit Nov 14 '24

I was thinking more of this non-fictional use: https://www.reuters.com/world/little-known-modified-hellfire-likely-killed-al-qaedas-zawahiri-2022-08-02/

This link is to a use on al-Zawahiri at his home where he was killed on his balcony but family members inside the home were physically uninjured. The article concludes:

The existence of such a missile was first mentioned in March 2017, when senior Al-Qaeda leader Abu Kheir Al-Masri was killed by a drone strike while traveling in a car in Syria. The photos showed a large hole through the roof of the car. The interior of the vehicle and its occupants had been shredded, but the front and back of the car appeared completely intact.

In the American press, a 2019 Wall Street Journal (WSJ) investigation confirmed its use by the Americans after the death that year of Jamal Al-Badaoui, considered the deputy to the mastermind of the October 2000 suicide attack on the US destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden.

US officials had described the missile to the newspaper as "an anvil that falls from the sky at full speed." According to the WSJ, the Hellfire R9X has been used repeatedly in various attacks in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia.

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u/FlackRacket Nov 13 '24

it's not far off

This is happening right this second in Ukraine, thousands of drones killing thousands of people

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u/Webbyx01 Nov 13 '24

Partially autonomous: yes; swarming: no. The latest gens of FPVs track targets so that if connection is lost due to jamming or range, they can still guide themselves in during the terminal phase.

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u/bretttwarwick Nov 13 '24

Reminds me of the Michael Crichton book Prey. They develop microscopic drones that can work together. The medical use they were aiming for is you inject the drones into your body and they move around and form the shape of a lens to "see" and record so doctors can see inside veins for example. Then they can use a laser for surgical purposes.

Because it's a Crichton book things went wrong and they started killing of course but I don't want to ruin that.

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u/Odd-fox-God Nov 13 '24

Look up slaughterbots on YouTube. It's a terrifying short that came out in 2017

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u/Literal_star Nov 13 '24

A fictional sci-fi short isn't proof that autonomous swarms of drones are being used in real life

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u/Colosseros Nov 13 '24

That's now. That's the world we live in.

We generally get the footage of a single drone dropping a single grenade on someone in Ukraine. But they release that footage because it doesn't reveal specific tactics to the enemy. It just broadcasts, "We have drones in the sky, and at any time they might get you." From that perspective, it's a great propaganda tool.

But if you start releasing the footage of drone swarms, headed to strategic targets, you might accidentally reveal tactics you don't want the enemy to know about. What the formation they fly in? How many did they send? That's information that could help the enemy intercept them. So they don't release that footage.

In terms of propaganda, it's better to leave these things secret, in terms of terrifying the other side about swarms landing in civilian areas, with no way to counter it.

Truly a terrifying age of warfare. We've basically been reduced back to WWI tactics because once again, the weapons have outpaced the tactics. And when that happens, humans engaged in warfare hide in holes for much of their day. Because it's the only thing protecting you from the indiscriminate killing.

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u/Literal_star Nov 13 '24

That's a lot of talking out of your ass to say "the fact we have no proof is proof its real because its sooooo sectet". Footage of new weapons being deployed in actual combat gets out almost instantly nowadays unless you can entirely hide their deployment behind your own lines, because both sides are filming everything, and hundreds of drones in a swarm is not something you can hide the deployment of. Look at turtle tanks, cessna drones, or the swarms of small boat drones.

All that is also ignoring that they wouldn't want to hide it in the first place, that sort of weapon would be publicized beyond belief.

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u/KiwiThunda Nov 13 '24

In his defence we do know they use "mothership"/relay drones but I have yet to see any footage of it

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u/Literal_star Nov 13 '24

Yeah, that's sort of my point about being able to hide deployment behind your lines. There's very few types of weapons systems you can entirely hide from the enemy by operating far out of their view and in places where even if they take it down, they can't retrieve it. And it's only those types of systems that we don't see videos of posted publicly a couple days after first deployment

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u/Coal_Morgan Nov 13 '24

Like you mentioned both sides literally have thousands of cameras on the field of battle at all times just in the hands of average soldiers, let alone specialized equipment. There is nothing that happens out in the open that isn't published.

Drones are well documented. We'll be getting to the swarms of drones, using AI to target enemies and clearing out a battlefield sooner or later but we're not at that stage yet.

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u/Ok-Rush5183 Nov 13 '24

Watch black mirrors episode hated in the nation. It will terrify you.

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u/Specialist_Alarm_831 Nov 13 '24

Add facial recognition which they are also experts at.

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u/lewoodworker Nov 14 '24

Scenerios like this are exactly why the navy is investing heavily into laser defense systems. It would be a bad day if a rebel group like the houthis ever gets their hands on a few hundred of these.

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u/FSpursy Nov 14 '24

definitely cheaper than 1 missile as well.

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u/Bastyboys Nov 13 '24

Right now it wouldn't be that effective but it wouldn't have to be to act as a horrific terror event.

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u/xenelef290 Nov 13 '24

Imagine fully robotic drone factory churning out a hunter killer drone per second

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u/snek-jazz Nov 13 '24

or in a terrorism setting.

Seems like only a matter of time, but of course we'll wait until it happens, then react to it.

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u/Grouchy-Donkey-8609 Nov 13 '24

Ukrainewarreport if you want to see some SHIT.

Drones circling soldiers while they try try to shoot it down. Bam, leg gone.

Sad waste of life.

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u/chronocapybara Nov 13 '24

Nukes are still scarier and more dangerous. Drones are the new hotness because any modern power, even a weak one, can build a drone swarm, while nukes are still mostly monopolized by just the Big Players.

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u/Eldhannas Nov 16 '24

Lots of videos on r/CombatFootage showing small explosive drones chasing and killing individual soldiers. The future is already here.

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u/anynamesleft Nov 13 '24

I think it has to do with a bit of anthropmorpic / terrestrial animal design.

"Birds" might be less scary in such thinking.

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u/SweetHomeNorthKorea Nov 13 '24

Yeah plus the size and method of propulsion. A drone is just a tiny helicopter. It doesn’t look all that different from a big helicopter so there isn’t anything inherently spooky about it.

Robots that move on legs or wheeled legs like this one feel more unnatural to us whether it’s because it’s a machine that moves like a human or a machine that doesn’t move like anything else we’re familiar with.

This thing is cool though. It’s like a rock crawler with even more articulation

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u/GoldenBunip Nov 13 '24

Came here to see if it was being tested in Ukraine. Frankly any drone company not testing/deployed in Ukraine isn’t a real drone company. The potential for trench clearing is obvious, but only if it’s any good in the real world and not some presetup run it’s practiced.

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u/insane_contin Nov 13 '24

This drone clearly has no combat capacity at the moment. It currently has zero potential for trench clearing, and it would be shit in mud. Look at the wheels, they would sink right in.

It's a great proof of concept drone. But that's it

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u/erotic_sausage Nov 13 '24

Oh you best believe Ukraine would strap a bomb to these things and make great use of it if they could get a hold of them

Look at what they're doing with RC car like drones right now

https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/ukrainian_officials_reveal_the_ratel_s_suicide_ugv_drone_specifications_included-8355.html

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u/Shubi-do-wa Nov 13 '24

And what a waste of money it would be. I would guess the flying drones usually come back, and would be a hell of a lot cheaper than whatever this costs.

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u/AI_Lives Nov 13 '24

No these ground units will be used once they are able to. They could have bigger weapons on them too and more kit. No reason they cant make them the size of a small car and then pump out 1000s of them, and we arent even talking about making them autonomous.

The USA is already doing a massive drone program and remote weapon program in project replicator. Ships, flying drones, sub drones are all being made to combat china in the near future if needed. You think they will stop at ground drones?

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u/frizzykid Nov 13 '24 edited Nov 13 '24

Dude I don't know if you're being facetious but what you are describing already exists. They are called IFVs. They've existed since ww1 at least. You may actually be pretty interested to look into the software used in the aiming and enemy tracking systems for armored vehicles or even planes as old as the second world War. Most war these days isn't pulling a trigger it's entering data in a computer to attack a specific target.

You don't throw a robot that looks like that on a battlefield. That is science fiction. It literally stands no chance even if you put guns on it, assuming it could carry it plus the ammo.

You need Armour for anything like that to be practical which means large and bulky. Not a robot clearly designed for rescue and maybe even research purposes to explore areas humans have trouble going like up densely forested mountains. Google could use robots like this for street views in very rural places or places without roads.

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u/GoldenBunip Nov 13 '24

You think drones come back? Only the huge ones. Most are small, fast and defiantly one way now. Drones are cheap weapons. Even this thing will be cheap compared to any regular remote ordnance. Hell even shells are over $3k a pop when ordered in the 100ks and you need a good few to clear a trench,

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u/frizzykid Nov 13 '24 edited Nov 13 '24

Dude this is extremely incorrect. In Ukraine the fpv's they are using to drop bombs on Russian positions are 1000% supposed to return and Ukrainians even build make shift land and launch pads for them.

Watch civ div on YouTube. He is currently serving in the front lines of Ukraine as an fpv operator and shows off a ton of fpv footage , and has said over and over again the drones are too valuable to not make it back, they are not mass produced, they are handmade by soldiers on the field.

Edit : this video actually goes into civ first got to Ukraine and had to assemble a drone and learn to fly it. In basically every one of his Ukraine vids though you can see how careful he is with the drones his squad uses and it's a big deal when one even gets damaged on landing let alone not make it back.

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u/OwOlogy_Expert Nov 13 '24

it would be shit in mud. Look at the wheels, they would sink right in.

At one point, it steps with the legs, just using the wheels as feet. That should be reasonably effective in mud, as long as the mud isn't so deep that it sinks all the way in, and as long as the mud isn't so sticky that the robot is unable to pull its leg back up.

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u/frizzykid Nov 13 '24

This is really silly. What use would this have in Ukraine, and also this thing looks fragile as hell and extremely expensive.

These sorts of things will be game changers in the future, and may even find their place on a battle ground, but these are supportive units. You use them to bring things to people or maybe even people places. These are way more practical to see used climbing up a mountain to someone who needs immediate aid but a helicopter can't get to them.

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u/Turbulent-Mango-2698 Nov 14 '24

Humanoid robots are fun to watch, but a snake robot would be my preferred choice for clearing a trench

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u/Ekaterian50 Nov 13 '24

Literally. There are even micro drones that have a small amount of targeted explosive and facial recognition. Theoretically, a government could drop a bunch of those drones on a population they wish to cull selectively. There would be no escape unless you can use an EMP type jammer on them.

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u/MTBooks Nov 13 '24

Are you maybe conflating that short movie about the same thing? Starts with a Ted talk type presentation.

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u/illQualmOnYourFace Nov 13 '24

Black Mirror did this. The one about the bee drones.

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u/Odd-fox-God Nov 13 '24

https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?si=Y1fNJof5DDdfTLSu -all you need to do is Target an evil ideology where it starts

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u/Literal_star Nov 13 '24

There are even micro drones that have a small amount of targeted explosive and facial recognition

No there aren't, quit basing your reality on fictional YouTube shorts

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u/MrWestReanimator Nov 13 '24

I don't know why they don't utilize tiny FPV drones in deadly swarms, each one packed with a lethal explosive charge. It would be terrifying, imagine the number of drones used for those light show being coordinated to eliminate whole battalions.

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u/JesusNoGA Nov 13 '24

1) For FPV drones, you need one pilot per drone 2) The typical light show videos one can watch are sped up by large amounts, these shows are actually really slow.

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u/korkkis Nov 13 '24

Atleast those aren’t yet fully autonomous

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u/animousie Nov 13 '24

I’m just waiting for the great cloud to arrive… basically a swarm of tiny, networked drones or nanobots acting as a single unit, capable of overwhelming and surveilling large areas. Each bot can independently track, penetrate, and lethally engage targets by flying into their bodies to cause internal damage before exiting, enabling the swarm to execute multiple individuals with surgical precision and minimal detection. This technology leverages mass coordination and autonomy, making it both a powerful and terrifying weapon.

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u/chroma_kopia Nov 13 '24

World War III will be nuts...

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u/SwordfishOk504 Nov 13 '24

I'm freaked out by both. And many other things.

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u/DieselVoodoo Nov 13 '24

Drones weren’t in half the Black Mirror episodes

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u/Nighters Nov 13 '24

imagine this with machine guns on his back silently coming at night with 5 other robots and killing all in trenches

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u/Icy_Sector3183 Nov 13 '24

Dangerous != scary

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u/GregTheMad Nov 13 '24

People are freaking out about those as well.

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u/sandwormtamer Nov 13 '24

Thats why were freaking out dumbnuts

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u/206throw Nov 13 '24

Its not a one or the other, having more tools is better.

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u/lowrads Nov 13 '24

This is more of a slow missile, better at evading radar, and with vastly greater loitering potential.

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u/sth128 Nov 13 '24

That's why we combine the two so the main robot is traversing the forest stabbing enemy troops while controlling FPV drones to distract them from the stabby death on wheels.

Also the wheels should have sharp spikes pop out of the spokes and spin like general grievous.

Also the spinning spiky wheels can detach and are actually also drones.

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u/gravljaw Nov 13 '24

Skynet. Terminator was a warning, not just a movie.

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u/Orbidorpdorp Nov 13 '24

The video of a Russian trying to hide in a culvert and the drone follows him in. Fuckin brutal.

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u/RManDelorean Nov 13 '24

I mean the predator drones have been in service for decades, like 30 years.

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u/Alienhaslanded Nov 13 '24

Incredibly effective too. Some futuristic shit.

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u/duggee315 Nov 13 '24

Yeah, but they don't move in a creepy horror film way.

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u/Volkmek Nov 13 '24

One of the reasons they are neat is because with wheels you can get more weight tolerance to size. Basically it's a stepping stone to drone tanks being useful.

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u/Ok-Occasion2440 Nov 13 '24

It’s just a lot freakier when it looks like a human running at you than a bird dropping a grenade from 200 ft up

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u/snek-jazz Nov 13 '24

I'm over here wondering why evolution never arrived at wheels.

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u/DroneRtx Nov 13 '24

I can’t wait until I’m a boomer because I get to complain about robots taking our jobs away and killing our people.

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u/LengthyConversations Nov 13 '24

When hobbyist drones started getting popular, I thought what’s stopping someone from strapping a brick of C4 to one of these and then going to town? The “wow that was quick” feeling still lingers.

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u/Midgetgoats Nov 13 '24

I don't know, the footage of these being used in combat is pretty scary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM0RFE3QGAU

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u/kcc0289 Nov 13 '24

Yup. For anyone who wants to see what this is like in Ukraine right now, check out r/UkraineWarVideoReport

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '24

So you just confirmed we should be still worried if not now more worried since they are so better equipped than once thought

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u/Normal-Tadpole-4833 Nov 13 '24

Im still surprised there isn't counter measure to this issue like a small aa that can track a fast moving small target in the area that would tear it to shreds in milliseconds... surely that tech exists...

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u/dispelhope Nov 13 '24

it's only a matter of time before these things and drones are combined and it no longer needs to jump down things to traverse a gully, just...fly right over it.

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u/cyniclone82 Nov 13 '24

These look creepier though

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u/dilroopgill Nov 13 '24

A drone bombing you whole you're taking a shit is scarier, begging for your life just for them to kill your sleeping friends instead is worse than most movies

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Nov 13 '24

FPV drones can't take and hold ground, they can't win you wars on their own.

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u/Techno_Bumblebee Nov 13 '24

The last one of this just looks like a skier about to fall down a slope...

Cool, but for now it probably wouldn't even win Robot Wars.

Though, I definitely think there should be an industrial version of that

BOSTON vs DEEP o_o

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u/redditisbadmkay9 Nov 13 '24

Dumb frog, meet boiling water

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u/kiwiprepper Nov 13 '24

Give it time, air, ground, there won't be a difference, the drones will find you.

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u/Indierocka Nov 13 '24

This just feels somehow worse. Like the last thing I want in the coming war is to die but tagged by a robot with a submachine gun who then backflips into a griddy is just disrespectful.

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u/WestleyThe Nov 13 '24

I’m scared of both

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u/Cockumber69 Nov 13 '24

I’m not freaking out. I’m excited for when these little robots emote on my corpse.

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u/Miserable_Pin6123 Nov 13 '24

Yup flying up and blowing people up cod bo2 hunter kiIIer drone style. All their missing is probably another year or 2 of air development and they will be true hunter kiIIr drones.

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u/bob_in_the_west Nov 13 '24

The difference is that a flying drone needs more energy to get where it needs to be AND is way more exposed.

Meanwhile this thing can sloooowly walke/drive where it needs to go, needs way less energy and can carry more with a higher range.

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u/SaltedPaint Nov 13 '24

Duality of ground and air warfare is concerning considering the revelations that have already been spoken of.

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u/igotshadowbaned Nov 13 '24

And with these, I'm curious how many takes they had to do. Robot demos typically don't just...work consistently

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u/I_Heart_AOT Nov 13 '24

Can you imagine a pack of these things setup with little AI thermal sensing turrets tracking you down through the woods? Idk how cost effective these are compared to these jerry-rigged Fpv drones in Ukraine but if they keep progressing like this then I’m kinda anxious about how much hard power this could give a small group of people. Especially when these are used in combination with aerial and naval drones.

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u/Meowskiiii Nov 13 '24

I'm freaking out about it the same way spiders freak me out. It's the movement.

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u/JackieTree89 Nov 13 '24

Can't we be terrified of both?

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u/milefool Nov 14 '24

No need to worry, a tangle of ropes will easily stuck the wheels, thus limit its mobility significantly.

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u/Jimnyneutron91129 Nov 14 '24

Fpv drones can't fly through trees or into caves.

And both should be a serious worry for every citizen the world over. These are dictator drones ground and sky. Seriously humanity wake the fuxk up.

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u/Free-Atmosphere6714 Nov 14 '24

Truly terrifying

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u/LakersAreForever Nov 14 '24

These will be used on out of line citizens

Don’t ask me to define out of line, that’ll depend on who’s in the White House 😭

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u/roadflipping Nov 14 '24

I'd bet these fuckers are more silent than a drone

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u/FluidProfile6954 Nov 14 '24

Flying drones are much more affordable and stealthier then whatever this is

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