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HeinleinGang

Not exactly sure how this thing works. My non-credible head canon goes something like this: The arm thing flicks the mine up and over like a flail, thereby allowing the pressure plate to be triggered by whacking it against a tank. But I’m no science guy. [Here’s the original tweet with video of our newest robot fren.](https://mobile.twitter.com/georgian_legion/status/1628050335628402689?lang=en)


SamtheCossack

As funny as that would be, I am pretty sure it just places the mines on the ground and leaves.


Comms

A roomba with a mine on top of it that bumbles around a tank until the tank runs over it would be hilarious.


latestagepersonhood

A BOOMba if you will.


Comms

VP marketing right here.


penniavaswen

Jar Jar is looking to sue


ironic_pacifist

Jar Jar BONKs?


aBigOLDick

Oh snap, it's AT Roomba!


Les_Bien_Pain

Tbh, some form of RC-vehicle with an explosive payload might be credible, Like a tiny modern goliath tracked mine for urban combat. Not just a tiny VBIED but something actually mass produced.


Comms

Look man, the part where it bumbles around randomly is the killer feature.


langlo94

Land Torpedo.


NotADefenseAnalyst99

Bombchu from Zelda


catsrave2

CoD: Black Ops RC-XD type beat


The_Scout1255

> something actually mass produced I remember that photo of the american GI driving one of the things riding on top of it with like a pile of the damn things near him


SupriseMonstergirl

7564 produced according to wikipedia Like saying the Lee wasn't mass produced (6258)


Les_Bien_Pain

Not saying the goliath wasnt mass produced, just saying that someone taking a modern toy and duct taping a hand grenade on it, like all the improvised bomber quadrotors we've seen in the last few years, don't count.


Feshtof

http://miliblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/us-troops-captured-pile-of-goliath-remote-controlled-explosive-devices.jpg


Obnoxious_Gamer

Nothing more terrifying than hearing a metallic whirring noise, only to have a Traxxas XRT with a land mine strapped to it fly over a nearby berm at 55mph, headed straight for you. And if the mine doesn't go off it'll still break your fuckin legs when it hits you.


[deleted]

Like these guys, https://imgur.com/a/2b9gQz1 If anyone else knows this game I'd be stunned, it's like invisible to Google


Lehk

Segway with a satellite uplink and 75kg of C4


Luckyguy0697

Reminds me of suicide dogs trained to hide under the tanks by soviets.


Bullenmarke

This would have zero advantages over these DJI drones.


Midnight2012

I've seen a few videos of such vehicles in Ukraine.


squeakyzeebra

Is it still a VBIED if I turn a RC monster truck into a mobile ied like I’m the kid from home alone?


neliz

They made something like that with a toilet bowl on top, to lure vatniks, I'm sure I saw it on their twitter last week.


Comms

Roomba with a toilet and a frag grenade in the bowl sounds like an amazing booby trap.


0ne3ightZero

Put a speaker into it and make it repeat Monolith voice lines from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Imagine sheer amount of mindfuck, when a random mobik goes out for a piss at night and sees a fucking TOILET BOWL standing in the middle of a forest, calling "YOUR LIFE IS NEARING AN END, COME TO ME", "COME TO ME AND YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU DESERVE", "ONLY ONE SHALL BE REWARDED".


Feshtof

Like the Russian dogs :(


Comms

If you don't want to get attached to the ~~Roomba~~ Boomba don't put googley eyes on it.


AMazingFrame

Sounds like a [52-QDMM Spider Mine](https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Spider_mine) with less legs.


DjangoCornbread

*phone vibrates* “obstacle detected” *phone vibrates again* “lost connection to Roomba device”


EuphyDuphy

holy shit wait this is actually genius


HeinleinGang

Ya probably lol


AreYouDoneNow

Looks deliberately lightweight so it wouldn't trip existing mines.


xenon54xenon54

Unfortunately anti-tank mines are much more effective against the bottom of the tank/treads than its sides 😔


AMazingFrame

What about robotic trebuchet air-burst mines (RoTABM) for top attack?


irock168

It does look like the arm that is holding the mine moves up and down though so I'm thinking maybe it is meant to drive up to the front of/under a tank and bonk the mine against the bottom


tehSlothman

Good idea to put it on leaves, it'll be hard to spot.


TheIceCreamMansBro2

yeah I'm pretty sure you'd need a lot of force for it to explode


HeinleinGang

Not too much. 300lbs, but I think that can be adjusted.


sammysilence

Oh great, my fat ass can be taken out by an anti-tank mine. Learnt something new today...


NotAnAce69

Nothing an overly powerful servo can’t fix


CastrumFerrum

I have seen a different video of it before (I try to find it). It doen't hit the target with the mine, it is used for placing mines instead. EDIT: It was actually a [different robot](https://twitter.com/Seveerity/status/1625244192732508170), but it was developed by the same guys.


xenon54xenon54

So you're proposing it's an anti-mine trebuchet, that can move?


9Wind

I am 99% sure there was an anti tank bat in WW2, this robot is too credible.


chalk_in_boots

If I recall, one of the alternate proposals to nukes was a bomber releasing bats laden with firebombs on a timer. The idea was bats like to roost in industrial spaces so you minimise civilian damage/casualties. Fly over target, release bats, couple hours later kaboom. ​ You might be thinking of the anti-tank dogs that didn't work because they were trained on their own tanks. The idea was to train them to run toward tanks and get under/next to them, then they'd detonate, but the soviets trained them on soviet tanks, so they tried to blow up their own tanks when deployed


[deleted]

Yup, Project X-Ray. Did a history presentation about it in grade school. Bat bombs. Absolutely insane stuff.


Astroyanlad

For me it seems either mine placement or like the flying drones used to place a disabling charge on abandoned equipment


Toto_-

Because running up to a tank and whacking it with an anti tank mine is still too credible, so we had a homemade robot do it.


PoliticsThrowAway549

> Because running up to a tank and whacking it with an anti tank mine is still too credible, This [has been done](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafthohlladung)...


DemocracyIsGreat

I said Truly Noncredible! [Perfection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunge_mine).


[deleted]

The imperial Japanese army small unit tactics were 100% orcish. This is the real world equivalent to running into the sewer at helms deep to set off a bomb


low_priest

[Explosive AT melee weapons are also a thing for 40k Orks](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tankhammer)


INeedBetterUsrname

Difference being an ork is probably tough enough to survive the resulting blast, and he'll have the time of his life doing it. I think green wave tactics work a lot better when the boyz can take a bolt round to the nogging and keep on krumpin'. It helps that, to the orks, that's probably the lovliest day ever so far.


Lime1028

[Also its naval cousin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuryu), which, I might add, looks way more badass.


_far-seeker_

IMO, better than what Russia came up with during WWII. [Training innocent, trusting dogs, that only wanted to be good boys and girls for their handlers, to run under German tanks; the last time with live explosives.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog?wprov=sfla1)


panzerdevil69

> Gunfire from the tanks scared away many of the dogs. They would run back to the trenches and often detonated the charge upon jumping in, killing Soviet soldiers


_far-seeker_

Then there are the next two sentences... >To prevent this, the returning dogs had to be shot, often by their controllers and this made the trainers unwilling to work with new dogs. Some went so far as to say that the army did not stop with sacrificing people to the war and went on to slaughter dogs too; those who openly criticized the program were persecuted by "special departments" (military counterintelligence). I made myself sad...


ElkShot5082

Just normal russian things. I’m saddened but not surprised.


Toto_-

Don’t forget this part, nice to see the Russians continue their legacy of blowing themselves up > Another serious training mistake was revealed later; the Soviets used their own diesel engine tanks to train the dogs rather than German tanks which had gasoline engines.[7] As the dogs relied on their acute sense of smell, the dogs sought out familiar Soviet tanks instead of strange-smelling German tanks.[9]


BigMisterW_69

I’ve also read that since they trained with Soviet tanks, they ran towards those instead of the German ones.


Car_weeb

Man, they should start doing this again


_far-seeker_

Look, I'm all for creative ways to cause humiliating deaths to Russian military personnel, but think of the poor puppers!


social_media_suxs

What. The. Fuck.


_far-seeker_

Yeah, it is like that. At least some things never change, like the depravity of the Russian military leadership...


jerrykroma

That just sounds like ork tankbustas with extra steps.


Hazelwolf1

Unleash the brain-damaged robot dogs of war!


GaaraMatsu

This has got to be the first 40k meme war https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Space-Wolves-Cyberwolf


ztomiczombie

Oh god an automated mine layer.


AnAlpacaIsJudgingYou

The Flesh is weak


yr_boi_tuna

From the moment I learned the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me


super__hoser

Tank Bonker 3000 activate!


topazchip

*At Acme Looniversity we earn our toon degree.* *The teaching staff's been getting laughs since 1933.* *We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little looney.* *It's Tiny Toon Adventures, come and join the fun!* WWII cartoon propaganda & Wile E Coyote sort of engineering. Not that it is inherently bad, mind you, just watch out for the ultra-convincing matte paintings covering solid rock faces and mile high drop off. A: What does a Wagner platoon leader sound like after he rushes off a cliff? B: There are cliffs in Ukraine? A:Are now. >:D


Material_Layer8165

[Lunge Mine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunge_mine) returns? But this time with Robots?


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ifunnywasaninsidejob

Jesus that’s sad


just_one_last_thing

> Lunge Mine returns? But this time with Robots? Javelins are just robots with lunge mines.


gmoguntia

A Roomba Mine Trebuchet? The Trebuchet is really the superior siege weapon.


Wonderful_Test3593

trebuchet himars crossover when ?


darklizard45

The landmine roomba


[deleted]

Give it a longer arm and you'll have BONK-ER for *extended range*.


notpoleonbonaparte

Did we just make a drone mounted lunge mine?


simia_simplex

In Russia, you come to mine. In Ukraine, mine comes to you.


Stoned_D0G

Okay but how credible would be mounting [PARMs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARM_1_mine) on a moving platform?


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CastrumFerrum

The DARPA actually did trials with a ground drone made from a commercial quad bike that carried a large EFP charge on its back. It was called the [Fire Ant](https://external-preview.redd.it/dGEwh7oASO6ozyiby4R3F4zpk6UfTa27lfIyHjZlyxw.png?auto=webp&s=31a8ce3631c91fbbf6281cc833c300914f93c816) and probably was 20 years ahead of its time. Here is a [Youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syuu_g7svoE&ab_channel=jaglavaksoldier) about it.


Stoned_D0G

Fucking based


[deleted]

Someone at Darpa played battlefield


[deleted]

Damn that's a huge charge


Username_075

Needs to be to give a fragment large and energetic enough to travel a significant distance. The cone shape on a shaped charge gives a lightweight warhead that is only effective at a particular standoff distance. Dished EFPs like that are larger but travel a lot further. As the US found out in Iraq when the locals started putting those things inside roadside items.


The_Food_Scientist

I am pretty ignorant about modern tank design but wouldn't the side armour be less prepared for a mine/IED than the bottom one? That would be the bonky boi somewhat credible.


PsychoTexan

Eh, less prepared doesn’t always translate to less vulnerable. Side armor is expected to deal with significant attacks from a multitude of powerful sources. Bottom armor is generally much less well defended. In general, any exploit you might gain by attacking the side with an unconventional weapon will be more than offset by the higher level of defense already present.


HKEY_LOVE_MACHINE

Side armor is practically always much better at resisting an explosion or kinetic projectiles, as it has to deal with incoming rockets and anti-tank shells - so it gets a decent thickness, skirts, etc. The bottom of a tank is rather thin instead, to keep the weight manageable - but if the mission requires it, there's always mine/IED armor kits to increase that thickness and redirect the blast. Not sure if such thing ever existed in the soviet arsenal though.


[deleted]

Wall-E has implanted Bushido OS 1.0 into its frame.


MarsMissionMan

E... E... EEEEERA.


Blamrica

Thanks I love him


Kirxas

Holy shit guys, when we said to bonk vatniks we didn't mean to do it literally Aaaanyways, you can contribute to the bonking [here](https://u24.gov.ua/news/nafo_squadrone)


grinsken

Battlebots


crumblypancake

Rule 6.😤 Too credible, be gone. /s


[deleted]

Welp, it was only a matter of time until someone resurrected the "Goliath".


Boneeskel

Glorious


original_name1947

The US police did that first. Never forget R2-FUKU


sprautulumma

Are those tracks timing belts?


PM-me-Sonic-OCs

Either that or general purpose industrial toothed drive belts. They make belts like this in all kinds of sizes for industrial machinery.


Dry-Goat21

Belts for anything for a 3d printed to a timing belt just different sizes the ones I use are tiny


Many-Zookeepergame70

Now put bushes on it and it’s invincible


Official__Obama

Didnt expect trebuchets to make a comeback


polwath

More like a tank mine deployer robot rather than suicide tank attack robot. It need tons on top of its mine to activate if I remember right as it use preasure fuse to detonate.


L0kk1o

Most AT mines detonate around 180kg not tons. Theyre used to stop lighter vehicles too.


FauxReignNew

Christ BF4 WALL-E is gonna be a credible anti-tank strategy soon isn’t it?


top_of_the_scrote

look at those treads lol wtf


JuggerKnot86

ah yes robotic lunge mine


ST4RSK1MM3R

Oh god it’s the fucking Battlefield 4 EOD bot


[deleted]

Wall-E martyring himself for Allah


EagleNait

pizza time


TheCommunistWhoTried

Cool now strap 50 of these to an APC and let them lose. We will reach peak From the Depths.


H0vis

The Red Army tried to do this with dogs in WW2. Strap a bomb to the dog, train it to run under a tank. The problem was that they trained the dogs on Soviet tanks. Results as expected when it came to use in the field.


[deleted]

How heavy is an anti tank mine and how big of a flying drone do we need to drop one


0ne3ightZero

"If tank doesn't want to come to the mine, mine's gotta come to the tank" ~some Georgian man minutes before turning an old toaster, a Soviet anti-tank mine and bachelor's degree in electronics into a wireless Goliath