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2005-01-25 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by God Save The World 2005-01-25 3:12:58 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Input, input!

Posted by #5 2005-01-25 4:20:33 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:20:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Posted by Mike 2005-01-25 4:22:13 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:22:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The reason that it only took a few months to put the weapon payload onto the TALON is because my company already had that system (the one in the middle...the other two demo only). With the M-240 on the SWORDS, it is one bad piece of kit. Now you understand my handle.

Posted by Remoteman 2005-01-25 4:25:24 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:25:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 R-man:

Lovely work there.

Posted by Mike 2005-01-25 4:29:42 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:29:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Very nice li'l 'bot brigade we've got there...

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-25 4:29:43 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:29:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Warning Lt. Robinson! Warning!"

Posted by Rex Mundi 2005-01-25 4:36:42 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:36:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Works on a standard tripod or on top of vehicles too. We even have units in housings for permanent fafcility security. Easy to operate and super accurate. I love my job.

Posted by Remoteman 2005-01-25 4:38:30 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:38:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "They can be boxed up and warehoused between wars. "

This is what the Congress has tried to do with us human Soldiers after every war... "wars over, lets cut the budget and dump the GI's"

Posted by OldSpook 2005-01-25 4:44:31 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:44:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 No Disassemble!

Posted by Johnny 5 2005-01-25 5:00:10 PM|| 2005-01-25 5:00:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "WITH American military casualties climbing...."

Whenever I read things like this, I find it rather difficult to keep myself reading further. Does the number of casualties ever go down? Lazy writers and obvious spin.

Posted by Mark E. 2005-01-25 5:39:47 PM|| 2005-01-25 5:39:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Does the number of casualties ever go down?

Well, if there's a necromancer involved. But not in the real world.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-01-25 5:46:51 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-01-25 5:46:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Remote kontrolled veapons vere a German specialty in my day!

Posted by Generaloberst Heinz Gunther Wilhelm Guderian 2005-01-25 6:32:46 PM|| 2005-01-25 6:32:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 But when do the GUNDAM battle mech suits arrive?

Posted by borgboy 2005-01-25 6:48:30 PM|| 2005-01-25 6:48:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Hmmm....

How well do they deal with steps?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-01-25 6:56:18 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-01-25 6:56:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 How well do they deal with steps?

Better than Daleks, I'm sure. But how well do these deal with bocked sinks?

Posted by Bulldog 2005-01-25 7:03:03 PM|| 2005-01-25 7:03:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Remoteman,

Thanks for what you're doing -- putting a bit of the fear of God into our adversaries. Please pass on our best regards and deepest gratitude to your buddies.

Posted by cingold 2005-01-25 7:58:53 PM|| 2005-01-25 7:58:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 How quiet are they?

Posted by TomAnon 2005-01-25 9:23:21 PM|| 2005-01-25 9:23:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 TA: They are rather quiet since they are electric. RC: They deal with steps pretty well from what I've seen. Cingold, much appreciated. I know that I would not want to see one of these coming down an alley my way.

Posted by Remoteman 2005-01-25 9:33:20 PM|| 2005-01-25 9:33:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 "Does the number of casualties ever go down?"

FLASH: Robots Hit The Copyedit Room

Posted by lex 2005-01-25 9:41:49 PM|| 2005-01-25 9:41:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Bad things are always increasing, mounting, escalating, rising or soaring, and they're usually doing so amid or despite something good.

Posted by Matt 2005-01-25 10:36:02 PM|| 2005-01-25 10:36:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 My 9 year old son wants one, Remoteman. Just mount a BB gun on top for now. We can change the hardware on the platform as he grows and matures.

All kidding aside, great work!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-01-25 11:53:41 PM|| 2005-01-25 11:53:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 "They can be boxed up and warehoused between wars. "

This is what the Congress has tried to do with us human Soldiers after every war... "wars over, lets cut the budget and dump the GI's"

Posted by OldSpook 2005-01-25 4:44:31 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:44:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2005-01-25 4:44:31 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:44:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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