China Now Has Drones That Can Drop Robot Dogs Armed With Assault Rifles Anywhere They Want

In a completely useless gesture, Boston Dynamics and five other major robot manufacturers pledged to not support the weaponization of their products. Earlier this week, The War Zone shared footage out of China of a Chinese-made drone transporting and dropping off a robot dog armed with a machine gun. The description of the video, posted to Weibo, loosely translates to: "War dogs descending from the sky, air assault, Red Wing Forward heavy-duty drones deliver combat robot dogs, which can be directly inserted into the weak link behind the enemy to launch a surprise attack or can be placed on the roof of the enemy to occupy the commanding heights to suppress firepower. And ground troops [can] conduct a three-dimensional pincer attack on the enemy in the building." This development of armed drones and robot dogs being used in warfare is nothing new. Back in October of 2021, Ghost Robotics and SWORD International revealed they had created a robot dog with an assault rifle attached to its back. Called the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle, or SPUR, this robot dog is capable of precision fire at a distance of up to 3,940 feet. In July of 2020, video of a robot dog with a machine gun demolishing its targets went viral.