This video of a drone airdropping an armed robot dog is the stuff of dystopian nightmares
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BY JARED KELLER | PUBLISHED OCT 27, 2022 4:13 PM
In a future war, death may not arrive by helicopter or tank, but with the gentle whir of electric rotors and the metallic patter of robotic paws.
That’s the inevitable takeaway from a video that recently circulated on Chinese social media that shows a drone deploying a quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle (Q-UGV) — or “robot dog,” if you’re into the whole brevity thing — armed with a light machine gun onto a rooftop.
The video was shared by a verified Weibo account named “Kestrel Defense Blood-Wing” which appears to be affiliated with the Chinese defense contractor Kestrel Defense.
The footage shows a medium-sized drone hauling a folded-up robot dog on approach to a building in a dense urban area before releasing its robotic payload on the rooftop and flying away.
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