My heart smiles at the thought of the first crew to actually command this thing in a war zone pulling security on some unknown pile of rubble and being awoken at 0347 by their tank unexpectedly dumping its entire payload on an “enemy” that it hallucinated.
Granted, dumb privates do this too, but it’s funnier to think about the tank doing it all by itself.
I like this idea better than the recoilless rifle conversion I was thinking about.
Yes, but choose one with a smaller beaver tail. The 75 series would be far too pokey in the clavicle.
Suppressive fire is a thing, and it does look like this would be good enough to do that.
The real limitation is magazine capacity for that role. Slap a drum mag on there instead and you’ve got a winner.
security experts Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger demonstrated that naive software design left the rifle’s aiming computer open to remote hacking when its Wi-Fi capability was turned on
Not even “smart” weapon designers are taking embedded device security seriously enough. I wish I were surprised.
Imma get real pedantic here - “thermite” is just a composition, like C4, TNT, or PETN. Those drones show just one of many specific delivery methods, spraying or dropping pre-ignited thermite as they moves To say that “[thermite] sprays flammable liquid everywhere” isn’t correct, but burning thermite can be spread like those drones do.