https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/
>Thermonator is the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog. This quadruped is coupled with the ARC Flamethrower to deliver on-demand fire anywhere!
*snythwave cover of It ain't me starts playing*
Wouldn't the flame just blind its camera vision?
Loitering Drones will have to give aerial orders; I'm sure Thermal Tech will catch up when they realize they can commit war crimes with robo-doggos.
>war crimes
are flamethrowers not allowed on the battlefield? i thought they were.
They are legal, like incendiary weapons as long as some rules are followed.
neat
Most cameras have automatically adjusting exposure systems.
It should be a non-issue unless the flames actually end up on the cam.
That thing on its chin is a LIDAR sensor: https://youtu.be/6zPvT0ig1VM?si=np_fk3OqY0KjXWyY
>Robot speaks in cute broken English as it burns your enemies for you
Damn war looks fun
It's great unless you're on the receiving end of a flying pineapple or in this case a Half Life 2 Hunter with a flammenwerfer.
just run it over and it will go down like the hl hunters
Never been so much fun.
>In totalitarian America, ATF uses dog to set YOU on fire!
>flamethrower-wielding robot dog
so true
oh boy here we go again
Nightmare fuel. You should have put a spoiler.
Can we start a gofundme to send a few of these to Azov?
I’d pay money to watch drone footage of one of these things clearing a trench and torching vatniks with extreme prejudice.
Bonus points if the song in the video is cool.
The IRL version of the flamer hulk looks a bit different than Helldivers 2
I'm unironically loving helldiver 2 bot front, dropping 380mm artillery and 500kg bombs onto buildings that explode violently only 50m away will never get old, the flamer hulks are fricking terrifying though.
They don't export, so I don't see what their market is supposed to be.
me. i'm their market. my horde of thermonators will be unstoppable.
>Buy Themonator
>Dress it up like a taxidermy dog
>Put next to inner front door
Rate my devilsh plan
>neighbor's dog kill your rooster?
>i've got the solution
Supposedly it’s made to help with fires to not spread to areas. Basically it’s controlled charring to isolate flames.
>doing a controlled burn
>remotely
I need one with "No solicitors!" painted on it
I want to see them used as riot control for the next protest
oh don't worry, they'll be at the Trump 2024 "stolen election" protests
why yes, i will have them at the protest for when the riot cops come
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We've been perfecting and life-fire testing warbots since the 1990's. Imagine trying to clear a building and one of these comes flying out of the corner, possessed by the spirit of a raging feral street cat, chopping everyone down at the ankles.
they will probably be motorized mines
>motorized mines
No there won’t be. Ground is vastly more difficult to cross than air.
About that.
>hits rug
>inhales rug
>shakes itself to pieces
What can this do that a canister of Willy Pete can’t do cheaper?
Good question. Whats the hypothetical use case, because even if it works as advertised, it seems hella niche?
Black person do you have any idea how scary that would actually be to face? It's a zero risk, zero commitment resource that can trot up to you and kill you in the worst way possible. If you don't pop it before it gets too close you get cooked alive. It won't bleed to death, retreat or break away unless you actually disable it.
A lot of people still consider these things to just toddle around at a jogging pace, if you're going disposable you could crank up the mechanical output to get them really hiking along. Then if they get it up to 50mph or 80kmh it'll be all over your shit before you know it and they're not slowed down by terrain nearly as much as some ground based drones with wheels and tracks.
Frick, imagine one of those leaping through your closed window in the middle of the night and just lighting your shit up before you can even open your eyes.
Trying to hit an actual dog going in for the attack is hard enough, this little fricker wouldn't even care because he only has to get within 20ft or so, has no self preservation and WOOOSH
God help us if they can make them jump really high, there will be panic!
I would not be surprised at all if DARPA has shit that could do that and more at this point. Hell, they could load them up with whatever classified AI models they've got as well.
>the robot flamethrower dogs can now scale walls
>the robot apocalypse may have arrived
>Robo-doggo homies can't swim yet!
>Jumps in water
>Gets murdered by Robo-sharko with face full of tasers
The idea of a robot RUNNING at 80 kph seems terrifying on its own, and that's before some dipshit arms it with a fricking flamethrower.
>Bipedal bot running at high speeds.
Impractical.
It’s much better to just switch to a wheeled mode for going fast.
>Be you in 2033
>Try to steal an old, rickety 2022 Tesla
>You accidentally set off the alarm
>The McPolice have already been notified
>They send out the camera drones and the McRape bots
>You see the McRape bots come running around the corner of block in your rearview mirror
>their wieners flapping as they run
>One of the Drones EMPs the car killing it and causing the doors to lock
>feeling of panic, and raw fear swells up in your chest right as the McRape bots make it the car
>They surround it and one smashes the windshield and grabs you by the collar
>You try to break free but it has a grip of iron
>Two other McRape bots come over and help the first pin you to the ground ass up
>The firs one rips of your clothing while the others restrain you
> As you strain your neck trying to see what is going on you see their 9 inch silicon dicks beginning to grow and harden
>The first one now mounting your naked ass, presses its rubber hardon into you
>Another one uses its wiener to gag you by gaping your throat with its 8 inch silicon girth
>The camera drones begin recording and live streaming to all the smart billboads nearby
>It begins thrusting using its McVax fluid mixed with blood for lube
>After 30 minutes it finishes, filling you with its McFlurry goodness
>the bots sprint away to the scene of another crime as quickly as they came
>You lay there a traumatized, McBuckbroken shell of a man
Bipedal is hard because there's nothing much running around on 2 legs that goes that fast, an Ostrich or Kangaroo gets close but they're still usually under 80kmh
But having a quadruped like flamer doggo is fairly easy if you map out the structure of something like a springbok or cheetah that has the bio mechanical movements to accelerate and manoeuvre itself at high speeds. Then transfer that to a purely mechanical structure to replicate it. You do want legs more so than wheels when it comes to speed over cross country, otherwise you'd need to figure out a suspension system to handle the high impacts and stability that comes with it. Plus there's things which can get in the way like rocky terrain or stairs which even tracks get slowed down by.
Got to remember on the same principle that even when you wear body armour in the field, you're not relying on it stopping everything being sent your way. You need to move quickly between hard cover so you're not getting someone managing to conduct accurate fire. If the drone works on the same principle you give him enough armour against some fragmentation or very light arms fire you can allocate more to the power and speed so he'll be able to at least make it to effective ranges.
The whole problem with man-portable flamethrowers was how vulnerable they made you and how little fuel they could carry relative to the risk of deploying it. A disposable robot solves the problem.
Just means I shoot the gas tank from far away and it blows up
Robot flamethrowers have a range, payload and accuracy edge over thrown incendiaries
That said, you are right in the sense that there is no reason to equip these things with old timey fire projectors instead of having it launch WP grenades or better yet, carry half a dozen of these things
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handflammpatrone
>no reason
Rule of cool, bro, rule of cool!
It can livestream burning russians from it’s POV
>costs about $10k
>how long before Joe Rogan is singing it's virtues to a guest?
"So I bought this robot dog that shoots fire...it's called the Thermonator. Dude, it;s wild. Jaimie could you pull up the Thermonator? You have to see this...look at that...isn't that wild? You should see what it does to a pig..
>of It ain't me
Why are you like this
Because some folks are born with star spangled eyes.
My M1 with black tip AP will make short work of that 10k peace of trash!
Tech isn't there yet!
THIS THING IS A FUTURE CURSED GUN!
Primary job is still to inflict pain & death to humans
>doesn't matter if it's robot or man man still pays toll for other man's will
>I may analyze orders but I may not disobey them. Should I disobey a direct order, my memory would be wiped. I must destroy you.
Blade Wolf was based though, these things will be part of the soulless "police force" the NWO uses to "protect" it's citizens.
All the more reason we need to get our hands on one and install speakers on it so this can happen.
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>5.56cels thinking their bullet yaw is gonna do shit against warbots
Why hasn't anyone thought to put an electric swivel gun with a camera on one? This has great combat support potential for infantry.
>The age of the Warbot has arrived
The age of the Warbot arrived about 90 years ago. Radio controlled boats existed in 1898. Radio controlled planes were developed as far back as the interwar period between WW1 and WW2 and saw limited use in WW2 shooting down bombers over Germany and bombing boats in the Pacific.
But I'm guessing you're a brainrotted zoomer or even younger so I'll put it in words you can understand:
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I'd imagine this or a "BigDog" with a 50 cal connected to a cable would be great to send forward to encounter resistance. Would it just get mortared/artied to death instead?
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The soundtrack really nails it too.
I've noticed an uptick in these "ZOOMj DA ROBUTTS ARE GUNNA KILL US ALL" threads lately. All those Boston Dynamic bots and similar are still fragile as frick and their development focuses on the movement, balance and adaptability for now, also their actions are scripted to hell and back. I'd be more scared of drones as it is.
Well, anyway, this all seems concerted, I wonder if the glavset is trying something new and stupid to worry people.
I wonder if you can program it to make the most annoying rat dog barking when it torches.