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Ukraine said it captured a Russian position using only ground robots and drones, no infantry, for the first time
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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Possible. It does seem like drones fighting drones should mean less human casualties, which has both a humanitarian side and an escalation risk side.
Then again a lot of people have thought their weapons would make war less deadly, and been very wrong, including the case of WWI-era artillery.
They "accidentally" told the drones/robots to attack the schools and hospitals. "We would never do that on purpose"
"Well why were the terrorists using school children as human shields!"
I doubt it will ever stop
This, but also if you aren't putting your soldiers at risk then war becomes more palatable (and thus more likely). For example, I doubt Trump would have attacked Iran if he had been quoted 1000+ American causalties in the first week.
No one will give a shit about robots dying. The drones will either be attempting to war crime civillians or intercept said war crime robots.
And drone intercept rates arent even close to that not being scary.
Yes, but human soldiers doing atrocities is nothing new (unfortunately). There's no obvious reason to think drones will make that particular aspect of warfare worse.
People will give a shit about the robots dying once their side starts running low.
When shit turns into Helm's Deep, when the robots are taking out the last of your defenses, you'll give a shit lol.
Think of the drones and robots less like soldiers/planes and more like a thousand points that make up a force field. As that field decays, so does your protection beneath it.
I think you're overestimating the defensive capabilities we have. Drones has been so successful in warfare specifically because there is no good counter, and numbers can be used to overcome more effective countermeasures.
Helms deep had walls which were impassable before breaching. Drones leak through defenses like a sieve.
Dude, I am not talking about capabilities we have. We're talking about massive drone-on-drone wars, not today.
So thank you for contributing to some other conversation, but your comment does not exist in the same universe as mine.
That world is here and now. The only futuristic or scifi element is the perfect defense.
Yeah, destroying inanimate robots isn't really going to get your enemy to capitulate. Like shooting Iran's missiles out of the sky isn't going to change their plan.
People need to die in warfare for it to matter. Economic and infrastructure targets are really only useful in reaching that goal of killing.