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The LMAU(Largentian Mountain Assault Unit) is a top of the line robot just released to our military. Normally it crawls on all fours like a cat and can scale ANY surface. This robot is used in groups to quickly make it over mountains and cliffs. All the claws and the drill on its hands are dimond and will safley secure it to any surface. It can go up or down the surface of your choice. The LMAU comes in a variety of sizes and comes with a variety of weapons. The model on sale doesn't have interchangable weapons. One weapon this uses is an eagle shell. It is like a very small cruise missle that is used against tanks. Tha LMAU has a camoufage derived from an animal found in the ocean. It uses artificial cells to blend in with its environment. It will only work from a distance or at nights. This robot can be programmed to be selfcontained or run by remote control. The specs are below:

Length: 65 feet
Weight: 100 tons
Camouflaged
Imaging/sensor systems:
Thermal
Magnetic
telivison sensor
Weapons:
4 stringer missles
8 cruise missles
24 70 mm fold-in rockets
20 Eagle shells
2 hellfire missle systems
Cost: 20 million USD

For its legnth and weapons capacity, it is far too light.
Also, it seems rather highly armed. One good hit, and all those missiles could go up like a big firecracker.

thats a good point, a good, armored robot that big would probably be 50 tons at least

First, your right about the weight I'll change it. Secondly, the bigger missles are protected by several layers of metal if something ever could get a lucky shot at it. It moves pretty fast and strikes from a distance then moves in to finish off the survivors.

An m1 is only what, twenty or thirty feet? That means that this robot would need to weigh at least 120 tons. Something that big can only move at a snail's speed on the ground.

Not really, it can move fast for its size. Besides its not built for speed.

As I said it comes in other sizes as well. This is not one of the lightly armed fast ones.

The problem is that it takes a huge amount of energy to move something that heavy on land. How is it powered?

Presumeably, if you had enough energy, it could move as fast as its leg structure would allow it. However, the energy required would be astronomical.

Plus, the engine and related parts of the robot would break down very quickly, since it needs to move faster and lift lots of weight to achive the target speed.

First of all, it is on four legs most of the time which are pretty bulky(ecxuse the pic) It body is also a little larger(excuse the pic) so not as much power is needed but it still does take a lot of power yes, which is why it isn't built for very much speed but is still can climb pretty fast bacause it doesn't use it's legs as much which is why this robot is used in moutains not flat plains.

First of all, it is on four legs most of the time which are pretty bulky(ecxuse the pic) It body is also a little larger(excuse the pic) so not as much power is needed but it still does take a lot of power yes, which is why it isn't built for very much speed but is still can climb pretty fast bacause it doesn't use it's legs as much which is why this robot is used in moutains not flat plains.

Ohh! It comes in other sizes! Now I get it! Nevermind.

Rebeland will take 1,000. Mainly to be used in quelling turmultuous riots. Money will be wired upon confirmation.

Does it run autotonimously, or do people have to control it? Can it tell the difference between friend and foe, or how much force must be used in a given situation?

Is this future tech?

Rebeland will take 1,000. Mainly to be used in quelling turmultuous riots. Money will be wired upon confirmation.

hmm, okay but you better use them wisely.

Is this future tech?

Not to future tech but not modern tech. It is based on some modern tech ideas though. I really dont know what to consider it.

Does it run autotonimously, or do people have to control it? Can it tell the difference between friend and foe, or how much force must be used in a given situation?

It can tell the difference about 90% of the time but you usually wont send these into a huge warsone where there are thousands of your own troops. These also can be programmed to run either way. I dont understand your last qustion though.

a robot like thi smust be very expensive how do you afford so many of them

ill take 2,000 money wired upon confirmation

A Mekantan AI makes a growling/hissing sound, then disengages the communications feed.

It seems a little cheep for what they are buying...

Otherwise I don't have much of an issue with the thing, they must cost a fair bit to produce and maintain due to the amount of problems you have to get past for a walker of that size...

Overall I'm happy with this tech because I know that I can use much cheeper techniques to destroy something with a balance problem like this, afterall... having legs means that if it looses those legs it is basically a load of slag metal.

I also guess that something like this would have limited armour, probably less then that of a modern tank. Afterall, it has to carry the wieght around in the awarkward manner of walking. So some infantry carried weapons could probably do the job of it's it in the legs to mess it up.


Of course, you have to admire the ability for it to take the fight to the rougher terrian... though the jungle could still give it trouble. Overall I prefer my tanks over walkers... they're cheeper and better armoured.

Alright mate i'll take 100 of them they seem like good patrol and anti-tank weapons.

Does it run autotonimously, or do people have to control it? Can it tell the difference between friend and foe, or how much force must be used in a given situation?

It can tell the difference about 90% of the time but you usually wont send these into a huge warsone where there are thousands of your own troops. These also can be programmed to run either way. I dont understand your last qustion though.With the last part of the question, I ment to ask whether it would know the difference between a bunch of non-violent protesters and a couple of guys with AKs.

So whenever they deploy, they slaughter 10% of their own troops? Quite interesting.

I just have ein little question, comrade. We are not really interested in ze combat und ze fighting. How, all those specifications, it's all very schlein, but the question remains, are those leistungsfähig robots powerful enough to cut and manufacture hot dogs? We have been trying to find more efficient ways to produce our classic Delicious Frankfurters(tm) hot dogs("made with 100% canine meat!") und your robots may seem to be our answer!

Schwartzen Klein,

Franz Anton Krager,

Director of Hot Dog Productions

Large robots are often found inpractical, however smaller ones used in anti-infantry urban warfare or mobile (in unroaded terrain) missile walkers can be quite effective. However, once that robot is deployed how exposed are the joints? For even with good armor a few well placed hellfires of 120mm armor piercing rounds could really destabilize it.

"Fool not with thier inferior machines, hot dog men. Mekanta can provide a much better system."

"Fool not with thier inferior machines, hot dog men. Mekanta can provide a much better system."

Oh! I think we ave ze wiener. (no pun intended...wait...ja...pun intended.)
I cannot get over ze schlein English word plays.

Hober Zwinkermann

Assistant Director of Hot Dog Productions

p.s. the term "hot dog men" sounds very good...perhaps we will use it in a marketing campaign..along with "warriors of weiner" and "godfather of ketchup" ay?

ill take 2,000 money wired upon confirmation

denied

ill take 2,000 money wired upon confirmation

denied

Does it run autotonimously, or do people have to control it? Can it tell the difference between friend and foe, or how much force must be used in a given situation?

It can tell the difference about 90% of the time but you usually wont send these into a huge warsone where there are thousands of your own troops. These also can be programmed to run either way. I dont understand your last qustion though.With the last part of the question, I ment to ask whether it would know the difference between a bunch of non-violent protesters and a couple of guys with AKs.

So whenever they deploy, they slaughter 10% of their own troops? Quite interesting.

well, 90% isn't the exact number and they won't shoot down 10% of your troops. These are easily programmed and easy to improve. If you have troops in there there are always ways to make it tell the difference but without preprogramming it is 10%.

"Irrelevant. Your AI, because of that flaw, is inferior."

"Mekanta would be happy to provide you with better AI... for a substantial price."

"Give us 250 million US dollars, and we will make your AI problem disapear..."

"Irrelevant. Your AI, because of that flaw, is inferior."

"Mekanta would be happy to provide you with better AI... for a substantial price."

"Give us 250 million US dollars, and we will make your AI problem disapear..."

no thanks, we have much better AI than this but we don't sell it to anyone. Also, what do you mean by inferior, 5 minutes with the thing and it goes from 90% to 100%

"Irrelevant. Your AI, because of that flaw, is inferior."

"Mekanta would be happy to provide you with better AI... for a substantial price."

"Give us 250 million US dollars, and we will make your AI problem disapear..."

no thanks, we have much better AI than this but we don't sell it to anyone. Also, what do you mean by inferior, 5 minutes with the thing and it goes from 90% to 100%

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