Unmanned Combat Ground Vehicle

Blitzo · 2025-10-25T17:36:26-0400

SanWenYu said:
Still using ropes instead of standardized harness for fixing payloads onto quadrupled robots.

To be fair, the robot dogs are fairly small, primitive and exploratory in nature at present. They're hardly bespoke or hardened designs, and not practical for actual combat as they are. How they secure a container on the robot dog is a relatively small issue in that context.

It's the equivalent of Phantom quadcopter drones dropping hand grenades during the mid 2010s in the middle east, which is... perfectly fine as initial tech demonstration.

SanWenYu · 2025-10-25T19:24:53-0400

JimmyMcFoob said:
If you lost your knife (which should be securely attached to your person in its sheath), then you're in very deep trouble and should get off of the battlefield because you're useless.

You just cannot design your weapons, equipments and doctrines with the expectation that soldiers always have their weapons and gears present and functioning all the time. In battle fields, soldiers can and will lose their weapons and gears or end up with broken ones in battle fields.

And, for most soldiers, knives are useless 99% of time. When they have a reason to leave their knives behind, they will do it without second thought.

SanWenYu · 2025-10-25T19:28:36-0400

Blitzo said:
To be fair, the robot dogs are fairly small, primitive and exploratory in nature at present. They're hardly bespoke or hardened designs, and not practical for actual combat as they are. How they secure a container on the robot dog is a relatively small issue in that context.

It's the equivalent of Phantom quadcopter drones dropping hand grenades during the mid 2010s in the middle east, which is... perfectly fine as initial tech demonstration.

Fair enough for tech demos. Let's wait for the real thing and hope no more ropes.

SanWenYu · 2025-10-25T19:33:18-0400

drowingfish said:
This kind of what if argument is quite pointless, always coming up with some unlikely but extreme conditions to invalidate a simple procedure that works 99.99% of the time.

Yeah, pointless as trigger discipline that is all about what if.

Blitzo · 2025-10-25T20:41:38-0400

SanWenYu said:
Fair enough for tech demos. Let's wait for the real thing and hope no more ropes.

Well, chances are there will be multiple iterations until they reach a family of platforms that are deemed acceptable (if they are proven to be desirable as a platform type in the first place).

Overall, of the many ways in which they can advance their robot dog efforts, the use of straps to tie down a container is barely worth a mention.

drowingfish · 2025-10-25T22:47:00-0400

SanWenYu said:
You just cannot design your weapons, equipments and doctrines with the expectation that soldiers always have their weapons and gears present and functioning all the time. In battle fields, soldiers can and will lose their weapons and gears or end up with broken ones in battle fields.

And, for most soldiers, knives are useless 99% of time. When they have a reason to leave their knives behind, they will do it without second thought.

okay so I see you have no military experience...because knives/multitool are very standard for all soldiers everywhere.

SanWenYu · 2025-10-25T23:35:52-0400

Blitzo said:
Well, chances are there will be multiple iterations until they reach a family of platforms that are deemed acceptable (if they are proven to be desirable as a platform type in the first place).

Overall, of the many ways in which they can advance their robot dog efforts, the use of straps to tie down a container is barely worth a mention.

The robot dogs are like truck chassis. No matter how powerful and agile they are, they are almost useless until fitted with proper harness to take their intended payloads easily, securely and safely.

Having standardized "interfaces" between the robot dogs and their payloads can decide whether they will be the jeeps/humvees on four legs, or just remain a niche and ad hoc specialty.

Blitzo · 2025-10-25T23:39:10-0400

SanWenYu said:
The robot dogs are like truck chassis. No matter how powerful and agile they are, they are almost useless until fitted with proper harness to take their intended payloads easily, securely and safely.

Having standardized "interfaces" between the robot dogs and their payloads can decide whether they will be the jeeps/humvees on four legs, or just remain a niche and ad hoc specialty.

As they are, they are less like truck chassis and more like remote control toy trucks.

They lack the adequate size, robustness, endurance and payload to be considered proper viable warfighting/logistics platforms. As I said, using ad-hoc straps is a relatively trivial issue for the development of this system, because as it stands it is barely "proper" in any sense of the word to begin with.

SanWenYu · 2025-10-25T23:40:21-0400

drowingfish said:
okay so I see you have no military experience...because knives/multitool are very standard for all soldiers everywhere.

LOL no I don't but it does not require military experience to imagine that individual soldiers can be in situations without his gears in full.

GTI · 2025-10-25T23:49:36-0400

by78 said:
Robot dogs participate in a beach assault exercise: transporting ammo to troops and providing fire support.

Do you have a link to the video by any chance?

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