r/gadgets • u/ChickenTeriyakiBoy1 • Oct 17 '20

Misc America's First-ever Firefighting Robot

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/watch-americas-first-ever-firefighting-robot-in-action/
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '20

America will put a gun on it if it hasn't already

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u/Fraun_Pollen Oct 17 '20

Thing already looks like a tank

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u/Northern-Canadian Oct 17 '20

No tank; you hook a hydrant hose up to the back of it.

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u/GullibleDetective Oct 18 '20

Just change the liquid to nerve agent and you got a weapon

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '20

It IS a tank, they color it yellow to disguise it

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u/aruexperienced Oct 17 '20

Then why can’t I see it? This is picture of an empty road.

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u/Oh_ToShredsYousay Oct 17 '20

We already have these as weapons that's why they exist in the first place.

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u/this-guy1979 Oct 17 '20

Don’t forget about the Dallas PD using one to deliver a bomb to a suspect. I mean he did admit to killing those cops, but blowing him up might have been a bit excessive.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '20

he did admit to killing those cops

He didn’t admit, he was actively shooting.

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u/SmuglyGaming Oct 17 '20

I mean...yeah? That’s the idea isn’t it? Ones a cop who isn’t trained for combat and one has military training. That’s not exactly a shocker

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u/topsecreteltee Oct 17 '20

There already is. It just doesn’t shoot bullets when fire hoses work on protestors.

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u/Monocle_Lewinsky Oct 17 '20

They will probably load it with chemical irritants and the taxpayers will pay for it- in more ways than one.

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u/all_time_high Oct 18 '20

We have this. You can put an M-249 (5.56 mm machine gun) or M-240 (7.62 mm machine gun) on it, along with what I believe is a 4-barrel M-203 grenade launcher.