Thanks for the tip, Captn.capt midnight wrote:Along this line, if you're wanting some quality autonomous tank reading, look for a series of books written by Keith Laumer, called BOLOs. I bet a bunch of folks on here would enjoy them. I've been reading them for years.
Bill
My list of writers to explore grows longer by the day! In fact, my coffee table's already labouring under the weight of 'priority' reads.. , and the shelves are sagging with the next lot to catch up on. I see that Laumer died some time ago but writers, especially sci-fi writers, often anticipate technological breakthroughs long before they happen. On the Forum, I expect Painless has probably leafed through a few of his books.
There has been a series of books with short stories based on his ideas. Most are really good and capture the "feel" of his books.43rdRecceReg wrote:Thanks for the tip, Captn.capt midnight wrote:Along this line, if you're wanting some quality autonomous tank reading, look for a series of books written by Keith Laumer, called BOLOs. I bet a bunch of folks on here would enjoy them. I've been reading them for years.
Bill
I'd never heard the 'Bolo' term until you mentioned it, but checking in the 'search' box here brings up a few references in archived threads. With drones being to the fore in the modern world of surveillance and warfare, 'Driverless' tanks are an obvious development. Where wars are conducted remotely, pilots and tankers are not actually mashed up by cannon shells, or spalling. What better then for crew life-expectancy, than an Armata T-14 with no actual crew on board, eh? They can be sipping a vodka hundreds of miles from the front line, safe in the knowledge that if the tank is wasted; they won't be. Thus- by extension- WW3 could actually be fought like W.O.T. The combatants go home to their loved ones, and their vehicles to the scrapyard.
43rdRecceReg wrote:Apparently, the Chinese and Russians (Armata T-14) are in the vanguard of Unmanned Ground vehicles, or UGVs. But this trend has now emerged in scale model Tigers too, it seems.
Mind you, if you strip the technology out of autonomous vacuum cleaners or lawn mowers, and shoehorn it into your prized ABS and alloy beasties, you could have units of panzers patrolling your garden, or tank park, whilst you sip a lazy summer julep as you are ensconced in your deck chair...
Yep, I'd concur with the overlap.Raminator wrote:Surely this is the overlap in the Venn diagram between UGVs and our hobby.
A .50 BMG round scales well to a 3" projectile at 1:6, just saying.
. With that weapon waving around like some inebriated Conductor's baton, it could easily make for a brown swimming trunks experience. 
