Posted on 07/14/2010 12:10:45 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Security along the DMZ has gone high-tech, as South Korea has quietly installed a number of machine gun-armed robots to serve as the first line of defense against the potential advance of North Korean soldiers.
The stationary robots — which look like a cross between a traffic signal and a tourist-trap telescope — are more drone than Terminator in concept, operated remotely just outside the southern boundary of the DMZ by humans in a nearby command center.
Officials refuse to say how many or where the robots have been deployed along the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, but did say they were installed late last month and will be operated on an experimental basis through the end of the year.
South Korean military officials will then decide how many, if any, robots they want complementing the soldiers who man the area adjacent to the 2.5-mile-wide DMZ, which stretches 160 miles across the peninsula.
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We should just give the South Koreans twenty billion in stimulus funding...to build a bunch of these border robots...and then just pack up our GI’s and go home. It’s a worthy investment...in my humble opinion.
Mechanical robots versus human robots.
Looks like something President Palin should consider for our borders.
We ought to set these things up as close as telephone poles from Laredo to San Diego.
Would the Taliban Monkeys be cheaper than robots?
barbra ann
Beat me to it. I prefer landmines at the mexican border but that’s just me...
first targets to be destroyed in 3.5 seconds
.....But Obama, who also notched up healthcare reform earlier this year......
For the sake of discussion, how about disturbed earth and signs “Danger! Pellegro!..... Land mines in this area. Do not proceed beyond this point” (sorry my spanish is limited) And another sign depicting an explosion with a legless body flying through the air.
.....I prefer landmines at the mexican border but that’s just me.......
Once more with the correct citation.
For the sake of discussion, how about disturbed earth and signs “Danger! Pellegro!..... Land mines in this area. Do not proceed beyond this point” (sorry my spanish is limited) And another sign depicting an explosion with a legless body flying through the air.
Thanks for the photo. Looks like just what we need on our own borders...
brrratatatat... brattataattttt...
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