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06 August 2007

Robot Wars in Iraq!
"American forces have deployed robots equipped with automatic weapons in Iraq, the first battlefield use of machines capable of waging war by remote control.
A US division of British defence company QinetiQ revealed that the 3rd Infantry Division, which is based south of Baghdad, purchased three Talon Sword robots for operations in Iraq...
The devices are armed with M240 machine guns or .50 calibre rifles and are likely to be most valuable during raids on suspected enemy compounds." (The Telegraph)
Brilliant! Armed robots are just cool. Especially at just over £100,000 each, they are apparently "comparatively low cost". I wonder when if our troops will ever get any?

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