Life in the future
The Russians went and built themselves a mech:
Russia has unveiled a terrifying 4.5-tonne bulletproof robot that can walk and hold weapons in its giant claws – and looks straight out of sci-fi films like Avatar and Robocop.
And it’s made by Kalashnikov.
August 22nd, 2018 at 6:55 pm
I’ll believe it when they actually show it move. Until then, it has no more credibility than those Iranian wonder weapons.
August 22nd, 2018 at 7:31 pm
Let’s see – We never see it move, there are no hydraulic lines to any of the hydraulic cylinders
Cool static model that doesn’t do crap
August 22nd, 2018 at 8:20 pm
The Russ also built a missile with “unlimited range”, a nuclear engine. first four of them they’ve flown have crashed…
August 22nd, 2018 at 8:24 pm
After never flying more than 2 minutes
August 22nd, 2018 at 9:23 pm
A missile with a nuclear engine? Sounds like the USAF’s 1950s “Project Pluto.” A cruise missile with a payload of small nuclear weapons and a nuclear-powered ramjet engine. In terms of weapon efficiency this was brilliant: the engine exhaust was itself radioactive, so besides dropping its payload of nukes wherever it was told, the thing left a trail of fallout wherever it went.
It died an ignominious death when they realized there was nowhere they could safely test it.
August 22nd, 2018 at 11:05 pm
They also lost one
August 23rd, 2018 at 3:10 am
Cool looking mech that, if ever operational, might top out at 5-10 mph? I suspect every squad with an AT-4 will be praying for one of those things to show up near them. Talk about “Pop-up, disposable, biodegradable targets”. Well, the pink squishy things inside will be biodegradable, anyway.
August 24th, 2018 at 7:52 am
Russia can’t afford the weapons they’ve got, let alone the ones they want. Big whoop.
August 27th, 2018 at 11:05 am
Papier Mâché