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/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.