During recent military drills with Cambodia, China’s military showed off a robot dog with an automatic rifle mounted on its back, essentially turning man’s best (electronic) friend into a killing machine.
The latter part of the video also shows an automatic rifle mounted under a six-rotor aerial drone, illustrating what the video says is China’s “variety of intelligent unmanned equipment.”Military use of robot dogs – and of course small aerial drones – is nothing new.
And the dogs have been popping up on China’s heavily regulated social media for at least a year.
According to the state-run Global Times, the presence of the robotic dogs at exercises with foreign militaries indicates an advanced stage of development.
“Usually, a new equipment will not be brought into a joint exercise with another country, so the robot dogs must have reached a certain level of technical maturity,” Global Times quoted an unnamed expert as saying.
Persons:
Chen Wei
Organizations:
CNN, US Air Force, Management, Commerce Ministry, People’s Liberation Army, Times, Global Times
Locations:
Cambodia, China, Lao, Malaysian, Thai, Ukraine