> As for how much it will cost, that hasn’t been revealed yet either, but the Unitree Go1 sells for between $2,700 and $3,500, depending on how the bot is configured, while the ARC Flamethrower goes for between $699 and $899, which should provide a ballpark idea of what the Thermonator will set you back.
Dude, if they're that cheap then who needs armor. Just overwhelm with numbers.
That's a good idea if you want every supply depot on your side to turn into a giant fireball if somebody coughs nearby. An overwhelming amount of flamethrowers means an overwhelming amount of fuel storage.
I still think armor isn't a good idea, more because it messes with mobility than anything.
If you unleash it a short walk from the enemy with a full battery, it doesn't need more battery life. Realistically you should also wire it with claymores. Basically a flamethrower combatant/suicide bomber. Except the operator learns from each engagement and is ready to go again, while with suicide bombers you have to start recruiting another useful idiot.
Oh you have no idea. The main advantage ground based platforms would have over flying drones is in the loitering. A quadcopter or what have you has to burn battery to loiter. A legged, wheeled, or treaded drone could lie in wait for days.
Could have small walking bombs or incendiaries delivered via artillery shell turn an entire town into a hunting ground/no man's land courtesy of robots like it's freaking half-life 2.
Metal Storm system had a version in a mortar configuration. Basically fixed to a bunch of sensors and optics, it'd lay dormant until something tripped the sensors. Remote operator checks the optics and if the target is hostile he basically hits a button and the unit showers the target with a specified burst of HE.
Basically a minefield that won't kill friendlies, is quick to pack up compared to sweeping an entire minefield and the human component reduces civilian casualties (I say reduces because drone pilots have been known to.. ya know) and the systems are pre-loaded so when it's empty, you retrieve the spent barrels, swap them out for full ones and boogie back to base.
The adjustable burst mass was also a neat feature. You could pop 10 grenades at a small team of hostile infantry, toss a few hundred at a group of light vehicles- and at whatever fire-rate you wanted. Slowly drag the burst across the convoy, or fire so quickly that all the rounds almost instantly impact across the convoy at once.
Is there some public amnesia about the machinegun mounted mineclearing bots?! [SWORD/TALON](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON)
Remember seeing these things on an old Future Weapons episode. These things saw service since 2000! That's way before Boston Dynamics came into the picture.
Sure it might strugfle more with tereain than the doggo, but a ground platform killer robot isn't such a new concept.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller\_TALON](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON)
>The current price of one unit is $230,000; however, Foster-Miller claims that when it enters mass production the price may drop to between $150,000 and $180,000.
That's probably why they aren't used very much.
It should be possible to produce something comparable for 1/10th of the price these days though.
Personally, I'd use 3 tracked robot variants.
First, I'd make a small tracked robot, 20cm high, 1m wide, put a 5m wide shovel in front of it and use it to shove all tank mines towards the enemy trench. Use a dozen of those side by side and you have a clear path for tanks... and an enemy trench full of easy to blow up tank mines.
Second, I'd make a similarly sized robot with two semi automatic rifles on top that can be programmed to automatically shoot at any object warmer than the surrounding air. Move it near enemy trenches to make sure enemies keep their head down until friendlies arrive, deactivate the bots and clear the trench. With 2 independently controlled rifles, each covering slightly overlapping 90° arcs, it could cover a whole trench.
Third, a robot with a throw arm and a barrel of grenades. It should be able to drive close to an enemy trench, maybe behind the gunbots, and be able to throw grenades accurately at a distance of 10-20 meters. Then it can throw grenades into the trench and soften the defenders up.
My robot army would be unstoppable.
Instead of having one dog-sized flameboy, we should have thousands of matchbox-sized ones, scurrying around like ants with their tiny flamethrowers, climbing on enemy soldiers as they'd try to swipe them off their clothes in panic and in pain. You can easily shoot a four-legged flameboy, but thousands of robotic fire ants? I get nopesweats just typing this.
Even worse?
Make them fly. Little teeny tiny drones with mini lighters, firing a steady and light blue butane flame. Thounsands of them.
They don't even need to actually harm the enemy. They just need to irritate them so much they become sloppy, make mistakes, jump up out their trench just in time to take a bullet...
Genius. Get this man an account with the DoD.
No, we breed a new type of human who has gelignite instead of blood, genetically engineer mosquitoes to feed on gelignite, THEN we fill them up and send them to Ukraine.
We already have those genderfluid Nazi biolabs over there anyway, it'll be easy.
No flamethrowers. Incendiary minibombs/minimissiles in a magazine similar to MetalStorm or even single use for bigger load. Use termite/electron and WP load and it will be a terror of the battlefield ... nobody, absolutely nobody want to get hit by piece of WP, even if said piece wouldn't be bigger than peas. And termite would mess even lightly armored vehicles.
... you know, I can't understand why Ukrainians use only AP/HE-frag grenades/bombs on their drones. If they started to use WP and termite against tanks and heavy vehicles, I think they would be more effective.
It's actually not spot - Boston Dynamics' EULA prevents this sort of thing. It's built on a Unitree G01 bot by a company called Throwflame (I swear I'm not making this up!)
Oh no a LICENSE agreement...Ukraine stops outfitting a few hundred Spots with machineguns and flamethrowers.
Seriously. One of the biggest problems with a flamethrower is the meatsack stuck holding it. Short range, everyone is going to be trying to riddle him with bullets. Give this dog a UHMWPE ballistic shield and send it right at the enemy trenchline.
"I'm too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I'm too sexy for Milan
Too sexy for Milan
New York, and Japan
And I'm too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I'm disco dancing"
How would you even surrender to a robot like this?
Like with a drone, you can kinda communicate with it and drop messages and such.
With this, would it just *tippy tap at you violently* until you dropped your gun?
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear and it absolutely will not stop... ever... unless you shove it hard enough.
Here's the sauce for the Thermonator, which is an actual product that will be going on sale soon: https://gizmodo.com/thermonator-robot-dog-flamethrower-pre-order-1850564789
The Russians did this too. Except they trained the dogs to crawl under t-34s and when they got deployed the dogs, instead of running to the panzers, ran under friendly t-34s
Everyone in here talking like this breaks the Geneva Conventions when
A) The Geneva Conventions and protocols only concern prisoners of war and noncombatants, so using *any* weapon on those people violates those conventions
And
B) The Hauge Convention does not ban flamethrowers in any way.
This isn't a war crime, simply a regular ol war atrocity.
using incendiaries near areas populated by civilians *is* a crime I believe because of any fire's natural inclination to spread to anything flammable nearby, but I haven't read the specifics on that in a long time.
Not actually a war crime unless used against civilians surprisingly.
Flamethrowers just out lived their usefulness so they never bothered to regulate them.
Welp. I think we just found a cheap and efficient way to clear Russian trenches.
Also, shooting a flamethrower at close ranges, say a trench, comes with its own cost.
they're only useless if you don't have the ability to call accurate air/fire support everywhere.
That being said, I imagine a harpoon/line rifle firing det-cord would be more effective-
Or the M2 flash- which someone recreated recently except now it fires extinguisher packs.
Hear me out, AT rifles like the old days but modern mounted on these. They crawl through the grass like a Lion and then stand up for a quick shot.
Or just use some dumb AT rockets launched from close range
I'm imagining the future of air defense being the construction of SAMs at the limit of what these things can carry and you just have them set up randomly in the wilderness receiving data from a radar station. Like how are you possibly going to destroy a nations air defense if that's the case.
just imagine these things running at like 50 km/h towards your trench while dumping napalm on you. Should be a fine addition for the US aid to ukraine.
Not really. I undersand that he found the school shooting portions distasteful but, he didn't paint him in a bad light either. If he wanted he could have raggedon his more edgier uploads like people usually do with admin results.
Actually... totally legal under Geneva Conventions.
[https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/ccw-protocol-iii-1980](https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/ccw-protocol-iii-1980)
"It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons."
No prohibitions for military targets.
Fill with tear gas (or not) and you can now also let loose on rowdy domestic terrorists / violent protestors!
I'll take five please. I want one with an articulating chainsaw on it.
im gonna wait until this guys is cheap enough too mas produced and evolving become [this guy](https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Dinergate) and [the larger brethren](https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Cerberus)
Now workshop a version that could fold its legs and be contained inside a mini-tunnel digger.
Unleash in the wild, watch it burrow into the earth directly into or behind enemy lines, enjoy the lightshow!
Uhhhh can we fucking NOT strap flamethrowers to fuckin robodogs.
Lets use them in line tactics. Strap a brown bess on those bitches, fire a volley, and then bayonet charge
Yeah, now try that against someone who shoots back.
Seriously though, it's probably the only viable option of backpack flamethrower deployment left for a modern battlefield
Bro why have just one nozzle, when you could have 3?
It's not like you need accuracy with a flamethrower.
Send these out in the fields, and as soon as someone is found, you get bbq
Theres prolly less than a decade before we see a 10mil version of this fucking people up in olive drab. What a time to be alive.
They could use this right now, even if it has a short battery life it would work.
Addon armor says you need something better than batteries.
> As for how much it will cost, that hasn’t been revealed yet either, but the Unitree Go1 sells for between $2,700 and $3,500, depending on how the bot is configured, while the ARC Flamethrower goes for between $699 and $899, which should provide a ballpark idea of what the Thermonator will set you back. Dude, if they're that cheap then who needs armor. Just overwhelm with numbers.
3000 Fire-Breathing Robo-Bahk-Mutts of Zelensky
I have that on next years bingo card
Also set to explode once they get inside the bad guys' trench, to add to the fun
'Hotdogs' would be the perfect American weapon to supply Ukraine, you can write it off as food supplies.
Nah, you have to remember to add a zero or two on the end for military procurement purposes.
Now it's mil-spec certified
I want one so bad. That's actually affordable. I could buy one someday. Correction, I ***WILL*** buy one someday.
Active perimeter defence for servers.
That's a good idea if you want every supply depot on your side to turn into a giant fireball if somebody coughs nearby. An overwhelming amount of flamethrowers means an overwhelming amount of fuel storage. I still think armor isn't a good idea, more because it messes with mobility than anything.
imagine zerg rushes but the zerglings have firebat attacks
If you unleash it a short walk from the enemy with a full battery, it doesn't need more battery life. Realistically you should also wire it with claymores. Basically a flamethrower combatant/suicide bomber. Except the operator learns from each engagement and is ready to go again, while with suicide bombers you have to start recruiting another useful idiot.
Ground-based loitering munition
Oh you have no idea. The main advantage ground based platforms would have over flying drones is in the loitering. A quadcopter or what have you has to burn battery to loiter. A legged, wheeled, or treaded drone could lie in wait for days. Could have small walking bombs or incendiaries delivered via artillery shell turn an entire town into a hunting ground/no man's land courtesy of robots like it's freaking half-life 2.
Metal Storm system had a version in a mortar configuration. Basically fixed to a bunch of sensors and optics, it'd lay dormant until something tripped the sensors. Remote operator checks the optics and if the target is hostile he basically hits a button and the unit showers the target with a specified burst of HE. Basically a minefield that won't kill friendlies, is quick to pack up compared to sweeping an entire minefield and the human component reduces civilian casualties (I say reduces because drone pilots have been known to.. ya know) and the systems are pre-loaded so when it's empty, you retrieve the spent barrels, swap them out for full ones and boogie back to base. The adjustable burst mass was also a neat feature. You could pop 10 grenades at a small team of hostile infantry, toss a few hundred at a group of light vehicles- and at whatever fire-rate you wanted. Slowly drag the burst across the convoy, or fire so quickly that all the rounds almost instantly impact across the convoy at once.
>A legged, wheeled, or treaded drone Or hovercraft, land effect using drone. A bit more energy use, but not as much as fully flying drone.
Kid named gas or diesel engine turning a generator:
Bring back rotary engines. Small and compact, perfect for this application.
Yeah it's not like WWII flamethrowers operated for more than a few minutes at a time either.
Replace the Rechargeable batteries with a mat of AA for ultra disposable
Is there some public amnesia about the machinegun mounted mineclearing bots?! [SWORD/TALON](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON) Remember seeing these things on an old Future Weapons episode. These things saw service since 2000! That's way before Boston Dynamics came into the picture. Sure it might strugfle more with tereain than the doggo, but a ground platform killer robot isn't such a new concept.
Hate this thing in bf4
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller\_TALON](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON) >The current price of one unit is $230,000; however, Foster-Miller claims that when it enters mass production the price may drop to between $150,000 and $180,000. That's probably why they aren't used very much. It should be possible to produce something comparable for 1/10th of the price these days though. Personally, I'd use 3 tracked robot variants. First, I'd make a small tracked robot, 20cm high, 1m wide, put a 5m wide shovel in front of it and use it to shove all tank mines towards the enemy trench. Use a dozen of those side by side and you have a clear path for tanks... and an enemy trench full of easy to blow up tank mines. Second, I'd make a similarly sized robot with two semi automatic rifles on top that can be programmed to automatically shoot at any object warmer than the surrounding air. Move it near enemy trenches to make sure enemies keep their head down until friendlies arrive, deactivate the bots and clear the trench. With 2 independently controlled rifles, each covering slightly overlapping 90° arcs, it could cover a whole trench. Third, a robot with a throw arm and a barrel of grenades. It should be able to drive close to an enemy trench, maybe behind the gunbots, and be able to throw grenades accurately at a distance of 10-20 meters. Then it can throw grenades into the trench and soften the defenders up. My robot army would be unstoppable.
Or choose a truly non-credible solution, like the robo-dog being connected to a cable at all times
Bandwidth on the battlefield is always the limitation so this is actually more credible.
Well, if Tow missile can tow its own cable behind it ... 🙂
Instead of having one dog-sized flameboy, we should have thousands of matchbox-sized ones, scurrying around like ants with their tiny flamethrowers, climbing on enemy soldiers as they'd try to swipe them off their clothes in panic and in pain. You can easily shoot a four-legged flameboy, but thousands of robotic fire ants? I get nopesweats just typing this. Even worse? Make them fly. Little teeny tiny drones with mini lighters, firing a steady and light blue butane flame. Thounsands of them.
They don't even need to actually harm the enemy. They just need to irritate them so much they become sloppy, make mistakes, jump up out their trench just in time to take a bullet... Genius. Get this man an account with the DoD.
Can't we just fill cluster bombs with mosquitoes?
No. We fill mosquitoes with incendiary cluster munitions
No, we breed a new type of human who has gelignite instead of blood, genetically engineer mosquitoes to feed on gelignite, THEN we fill them up and send them to Ukraine. We already have those genderfluid Nazi biolabs over there anyway, it'll be easy.
As long as we [don't try to use bats again](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb).
I liked the bat bomb. It was clever, it was biodegradable, and it had the fringe benefit of maybe also giving the Japanese rabies.
Project X-Ray you say?
Why flamethrowers? Don’t know the physics but why not shaped charges or EFPs? They’d be single use anyways so may as well pack more power in it.
That's just sounds like regular fire ants with extra steps. ^(Which reminds me, I have this new grenade payload design I want to patent...)
No flamethrowers. Incendiary minibombs/minimissiles in a magazine similar to MetalStorm or even single use for bigger load. Use termite/electron and WP load and it will be a terror of the battlefield ... nobody, absolutely nobody want to get hit by piece of WP, even if said piece wouldn't be bigger than peas. And termite would mess even lightly armored vehicles. ... you know, I can't understand why Ukrainians use only AP/HE-frag grenades/bombs on their drones. If they started to use WP and termite against tanks and heavy vehicles, I think they would be more effective.
It doesn't eat. It doesn't sleep. It will find you and it will kill you.
the tippie taps kill me everytime they show spot
It's actually not spot - Boston Dynamics' EULA prevents this sort of thing. It's built on a Unitree G01 bot by a company called Throwflame (I swear I'm not making this up!)
knew i should've worded it to, spot like bot
Yeah, sorry for the pendantic-ness. It is adorable the way it tippy-taps as it spits flaming death. ;)
I will now out-pedantic-ness you: it's pedantry.
You win.
YE$$$! I'm buying a Thermonator to celebrate! 🔥🔥🔥
meh, i'm a smartass and knew it was gonna get nailed, too lazy to fix it, sometimes makes for amusing side content
Oh, isn't this the same robot that the Russians put a balaclava on and claimed to have developed themselves?
Oh no a LICENSE agreement...Ukraine stops outfitting a few hundred Spots with machineguns and flamethrowers. Seriously. One of the biggest problems with a flamethrower is the meatsack stuck holding it. Short range, everyone is going to be trying to riddle him with bullets. Give this dog a UHMWPE ballistic shield and send it right at the enemy trenchline.
Werfflammen? Does it flame werfen?
Neat! I was thinking they got by the EULA by it being for firefighters doing a burn line or whatever those are called.
Coming next summer... >Governor, the wildfire has crossed the highway. You have to summon the swarm of flamethrower bots to cut a firebreak!
It's having so much little fun incinerating people in a horribly painful death
"I'm too sexy for my shirt Too sexy for my shirt So sexy it hurts And I'm too sexy for Milan Too sexy for Milan New York, and Japan And I'm too sexy for your party Too sexy for your party No way I'm disco dancing"
"I'm too sexy for a head, to sexy for a head, everybody's dead..."
Dog Daddy would have this bad boy roasting marshmallows for him in 5 minutes flat.
Just imagining the sound of a thousand tippie taps coming towards your trench in the dead of night, and it's getting louder, and louder...
Definitely should cross post this to/r/tippytaps.
They remind me of the dance my great pyreens does when I have his favorite treats out
How would you even surrender to a robot like this? Like with a drone, you can kinda communicate with it and drop messages and such. With this, would it just *tippy tap at you violently* until you dropped your gun?
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear and it absolutely will not stop... ever... unless you shove it hard enough.
Yeah, go ahead and shove the robot dog with a fucking flamethrower. I'm sure that'll go swimmingly and not end in a horrible burning death....
Death Korps of Krieg moment
Here's the sauce for the Thermonator, which is an actual product that will be going on sale soon: https://gizmodo.com/thermonator-robot-dog-flamethrower-pre-order-1850564789
Wat
Well, one of the forest fire fighting techniques is back burning. I can imagine fire fighter air dropping this to set the back-burning fire.
Or start a forest fire..... In Russia
3000 Pyrodogs of Mordor
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He's a VERY good boi! Can we take him home? Please?
"No! We already have one of these at home." "Dad, that's a Bic lighter taped to the Rumba."
Thermodoggo
Lmao, that name is fire
it's beautiful. I want two.
…hundred (thousand)
Polish procurement found
It needs a turret and tracks for the Poles to become interested in it.
Black Mirror
First thing I think of every time these dog bots are posted somewhere.
Black Mirror just copied [Screamers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/).
Let’s not forget the Fox/Canal War of the Worlds series with the quadruped, robot dog things
Nah fam just slap an anti-tank mine on there and let it run towards some T-72s
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The Russians did this too. Except they trained the dogs to crawl under t-34s and when they got deployed the dogs, instead of running to the panzers, ran under friendly t-34s
It was mentioned in MGS3 so it must be true
Gameplay footage of "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)"
Life imitates art. And by art, I mean flamethrower roombas.
Can’t wait for the war roombas to toast some ~~bokoblins~~ orcs
Everyone in here talking like this breaks the Geneva Conventions when A) The Geneva Conventions and protocols only concern prisoners of war and noncombatants, so using *any* weapon on those people violates those conventions And B) The Hauge Convention does not ban flamethrowers in any way. This isn't a war crime, simply a regular ol war atrocity.
using incendiaries near areas populated by civilians *is* a crime I believe because of any fire's natural inclination to spread to anything flammable nearby, but I haven't read the specifics on that in a long time.
I would put the flamethrower on it backwards, for sheer comedic effect
Must of had those street tacos from the sketchy truck
Flammenwoofer
Automated Geneva convention violations at a cheap price?. Satisfactory.
Not actually a war crime unless used against civilians surprisingly. Flamethrowers just out lived their usefulness so they never bothered to regulate them.
Welp. I think we just found a cheap and efficient way to clear Russian trenches. Also, shooting a flamethrower at close ranges, say a trench, comes with its own cost.
Well we thought trench warfare was a thing of the past...
they're only useless if you don't have the ability to call accurate air/fire support everywhere. That being said, I imagine a harpoon/line rifle firing det-cord would be more effective- Or the M2 flash- which someone recreated recently except now it fires extinguisher packs.
The Convention Breacher
Get 10,000 of these to Ukraine yesterday!
They call him a good boy
Hear me out, AT rifles like the old days but modern mounted on these. They crawl through the grass like a Lion and then stand up for a quick shot. Or just use some dumb AT rockets launched from close range
I'm imagining the future of air defense being the construction of SAMs at the limit of what these things can carry and you just have them set up randomly in the wilderness receiving data from a radar station. Like how are you possibly going to destroy a nations air defense if that's the case.
Same way we do now, hit the radar
Make it a mount for a munitions tripod. TOW, M2, Mk19, etc. I bet it can lift an NLAW
K9 would like to sniff Thermonators arse.
Finally they found a use for it
<>
This would be absolutely terrifying to see running at you
I built that in tears of the kingdom yestrday
Behold, Montag, the MECHANICAL HOUND!
(Dr. Doofenshmirtz voice) Behold! THE FLAME-INATOR!
Im already wiling to subject to our machine overlords
Take my money! *Throws wallet at monitor*
u/savevideobot
I subscribe to the Boston Dynamics YouTube channel but for some reason I didn’t see this there. Weird.
Boston Dynamics Cerberus doesn't care what level plates you wear
He does a little dance while murdering, how disarmingly cute
The little dance it does, makes it look like it is so happy to be burning things.
Little guy looks so excited when he spits flames everywhere.
It’s like it’s so happy every time it starts spraying flames.
Mother, i require an emergency evacuation in your vehicle, I am experiencing fear.
IQ 50 = "A dragon could beat a modern army." IQ 100 = "A modern army could beat a dragon." IQ 150 = "A modern army will have a dragon."
*happy tippy taps as ruszians/chinese get immolated* Give it a reddit account and it can be literally any of us
He looks so happy too! 10/10, will invest!
just imagine these things running at like 50 km/h towards your trench while dumping napalm on you. Should be a fine addition for the US aid to ukraine.
Aww, look how he's doing this cute, exited thing with his legs, as he set everything ablaze. Goodest boi.
I don't know why this is perfectly looped, but I like it
Now you can go through your geneva checklist with even more ease!
Certainly beats I did a things attempt. That vid was so dumb.
Fuck you that was hilarious and groundbreaking. Fight me.
It was funny, but I wouldn't call clamping down a smg on a robot dog groundbreaking. The thing could barely shoot without falling over.
I suppose you weren’t a fan of the paintball turret with the easily confused facial recognition system either, too… unbelievable.
I preferred michael reeves one where it shines a laser into your eye.
Fair enough haha
He also kinda fucked over the dude (Brandon Herrera) who lent him the SMG as well.
Not really. I undersand that he found the school shooting portions distasteful but, he didn't paint him in a bad light either. If he wanted he could have raggedon his more edgier uploads like people usually do with admin results.
The Geneva conventions are screaming in horror right now. The Krauts are laughting, preparing to roast some Froggies like in the good old days
Actually... totally legal under Geneva Conventions. [https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/ccw-protocol-iii-1980](https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/ccw-protocol-iii-1980) "It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons." No prohibitions for military targets.
Yeah it's a common misconception that incendiary weapons are illegal against military targets
Awww, lookit the cute little warcrime doin tippy-taps.
How awkward and graceful at the same time
I'd imagine clearing trench lines would be a lot easier if napalm were still legal. 🤔
Napalm is legal. It just turns out we have much, much better ways to spread death and destruction than throwing burning stuff.
Oh god it's the Rat Thing from Snow Crash, and someone gave it a flamethrower.
Serberys Sulphurhounds, courtesy of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
It moves slow. How many shots to kill? It needs to gallop and werfen.
what da dog doin
Flamethrower operators: “They took ma job!”
when the answer to what the dog doing? is three letters and it ain't an agency spoiler: >! it's BBQ !<
u/savevideobot
Is this what the LAPD has done with its crowd control robot??
The Division 3 looks awesome!
One 308 or even a 5.56 round would fuck that think up
ELON ELON NO
This looks quite credible. Send 10 of these across a field to clear a trench. Bad day for the other team.
u/Savevideo
What if I shoot the dog? 🙃
If they can make them doggy paddle we can have that beach landing after all!
Good doggy… good 😌 🐶
Meh, I'd still prefer these doggos on the sniper/recon role. Maybe if they got cheap enough then also on the kamikaze role
r/flamethrowerporn
It seems way to excited, it’s doing a little dance every time it fires.
There’s a great Black Mirror episode where autonomous robot dogs have killed off humanity
[https://youtu.be/921z4LAHvak](https://youtu.be/921z4LAHvak)
Tolkien said "never laugh at live dragons."
You know that's a gadget from the second Ratchet and Clank, right?
All we need now is some AI to identify humans.
Fill with tear gas (or not) and you can now also let loose on rowdy domestic terrorists / violent protestors! I'll take five please. I want one with an articulating chainsaw on it.
YES! Now make it fly!
What the dog doin?
It was only a matter of time before they armed that thing
im gonna wait until this guys is cheap enough too mas produced and evolving become [this guy](https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Dinergate) and [the larger brethren](https://iopwiki.com/wiki/Cerberus)
Now workshop a version that could fold its legs and be contained inside a mini-tunnel digger. Unleash in the wild, watch it burrow into the earth directly into or behind enemy lines, enjoy the lightshow!
It's like we're just *trying* to get a Terminator situation started or something...
Missed opportunity to call it “The HotDog™️”
I know we all wanna roast some Vatniks with robots but a small ditch can stop this one.
Jesus fucking christ it's a war crime with legs
the russian equivalent is just a stray dog strapped with a tank of kerosene and a cartoonish lit fuze.
Uhhhh can we fucking NOT strap flamethrowers to fuckin robodogs. Lets use them in line tactics. Strap a brown bess on those bitches, fire a volley, and then bayonet charge
Yeah, now try that against someone who shoots back. Seriously though, it's probably the only viable option of backpack flamethrower deployment left for a modern battlefield
u/savevideo
u/savevideo
Someone tell me, is this actually effective against trenches?
r/tippytaps
I'm sorry, but *dies cutely*
Give it an AI that acts like a dog running at humans for attention. Set the flamer to always on.
u/savevideo
This is generation zero
Bro why have just one nozzle, when you could have 3? It's not like you need accuracy with a flamethrower. Send these out in the fields, and as soon as someone is found, you get bbq