TR Unmanned Ground Vehicles

[Bilge adam reis]

What I was thinking is that cheap drones driven by AI, could be use to map out tunnel systems.

For instance you find a tunnel entrance and if the drone has enough AI and battery to run the full course until it either finds an exit or runs into terrorists, a small fragmentation explosive to self destruct, or battery power to relay back exit point. and other data it has gotten.

imo such drones would need to be cheap and very beneficial to shut down tunnel network.

Of course blowing up exit point would be the obvious choice especially if the data relayed back points at intersections, then you'd have the a second, third drone go to the brach area and map out.

I saw our soldiers using dogs etc where they get shot by the pkk rats in tunnels these cheap robodogs would and should replace them in the future, also another plus side of the robo dogs are unlike the pallet design unmanned platforms they are more flexible in small areas.

Even in ukraine Ukrainian soldiers were using these robo dogs to take out russian mines etc.

 

[Tornadoss]

I saw our soldiers using dogs etc where they get shot by the pkk rats in tunnels these cheap robodogs would and should replace them in the future, also another plus side of the robo dogs are unlike the pallet design unmanned platforms they are more flexible in small areas.

Even in ukraine Ukrainian soldiers were using these robo dogs to take out russian mines etc.

Tho they are noisy, no?

 

[Bilge adam reis]

Tho they are noisy, no?

Depends on the model, quality ones doesn't have much noise, But It is better to map out tunnel with these cheap robo dogs than sacrifice real dogs that take good amount of time to train.

 

[Saithan]

Tho they are noisy, no?

Yes, there are very likely noises, but a necessary step imo.

We want to map and find the exits of these tunnels without having to sacrifice human life, if necessary the drone robot could travel 300 m ahead of a search / kill team.

 

[Bilge adam reis]

We might have found a good solution here, putting guns on these robo dogs is waste of time but using them to map out tunnels and use it as a kamikaze platform might be the best solution. @Saithan @Tornadoss check this out, kinda scary how they can lay pretty flat and get up immediatly call of duty advanced warfare vibes

British-made robot dogs are helping the Ukrainian military at the front. The robot dogs move low to the ground, so they are difficult to detect •

Unitree Go 2 Pro robotic dogs have started to help the Ukrainian military in street battles against Russian occupiers - During street battles

ua-stena.info

 

[Saithan]

We might have found a good solution here, putting guns on these robo dogs is waste of time but using them to map out tunnels and use it as a kamikaze platform might be the best solution. @Saithan @Tornadoss check this out, kinda scary how they can lay pretty flat and get up immediatly call of duty advanced warfare vibes

British-made robot dogs are helping the Ukrainian military at the front. The robot dogs move low to the ground, so they are difficult to detect •

Unitree Go 2 Pro robotic dogs have started to help the Ukrainian military in street battles against Russian occupiers - During street battles

ua-stena.info

Yes, but these robots move slowly and are more like a help to scout units. Considering the tunnels we've seen and where they're able to drive vehicles inside I'd say we need drones or faster moving robots.

I'd say that making the ground so smooth is counter productive to the terrorists, because It's easier to make wheeled drones drive fast and map out the tunnel system easier.

Developing an autonomous system for these robots with simple instructions should be relatively easy, I mean in theory you'd only need to strap a phone with a simcard to these robots and have it attempt to call a number to pin it's locations (or we could try to call the number), so if it succeeds in contacting you could get the coordinates, and when it exits the tunnel and calls again you'd know where it is.

You could put limits on how far it could travel before returning to starting point if necessary as well. But that would not be very smart imo, unless you have manpower enough and plan to blow the entrance up.

 

[Kaan Azman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1886413934271381849

ASLAN and ZMA-X on snow

 

[Bilge adam reis]

Can we get some info about ZMA-X? It looks like the modernized zma with the new canon etc? didn't know It was a UGV

 

[Kaan Azman]

Pretty much modernized ZMA-15 with a few extra sensors and autonomy kit actually

 

[boredaf]

ZMA-X is the second ACV we turned into an UGV, FNSS had a demonstrator a year or two back as well. I hope this is because army is actively asking to see prototypes, ACVs and M113s turned UGVs would be a great option to have in the future.