Russkies in Oklahoma!

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if the studies I worked on have any bearing its only a matter of time before intelligent processing is mixed with mobile and adaptive machinery and then you have terminator like machines, they already have robots working on the ground in Iraq and then humans are obsolete, just send in the machines, sounds like sci fi but thats where most of the research is heading in the high end of the field. That said the whole future warfare thing is wildly speculative but interesting but the idea of humans being redundant in war is an interesting idea.

When you look at SPMBT, men in most cases crew the wepons, or machines and just do the thinking and even then that is being removed with automatic systems and such, so when the computer brain catches up with the technology, imagine a tank, with no crew, roaming around and doing the same as now, cool but it means we will have nothing to play as the computer will just play itself.

Im all for the human spirit but lets face it the biggest problem in war today is protecting the fragile bags of flesh from damage and making us able to survive combat in the face of the awesome firepower arrayed, remove the bags of flesh and you simplify things, look at UAVs, and that was science fiction kinda stuff once, humans may just be redundant in warfare one day, except for the political deciscions, and even then if you watch the terminator movies....