Man Vs Machine, Round 1! First Armed "Terminator" Robots Deployed in Iraq!

Oh My God! It's not like it wasn't expected or anything, but this time, it's for real. Cold steeled killing machines robots were seen on the streets of Iraq ever since the war began, but they weren't carrying guns. Until now. It takes years of development, millions of dollars and a lot of sick evil minds to do this.

It's true, this killing way is economic, it's blood free and mostly quite efficient against the poor enemies armed with nothing but traditional weapons than can be purchased by any loaded teenager in the States. The robots have been deployed to Iraq, armed with M249 machine guns, which are part of the NATO adoption of the guns since the early 80s.

According to the DANGER ROOM, Michael Zecca, the SWORDS program manager said that three "special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system" (SWORDS) robots have been deployed to Iraq, armed with M249 machine guns. The 'bots' haven't fired their weapons yet. But that'll be happening soon."

Even though there were serious reasons of concerns regarding safety issues that kept the "Terminators" off the battlefield, the manufactures produced the SWORDS, which are modified versions of bomb-disposal robots that can be seen throughout Iraq.

After noticing that the robots had a tendency to spin out of control from time to time, The manufactures retooled the machines and improved the answer to commands to less than 1 sec. Therefore, the robots won't act on a command, unless they receive a specific order. A three-part arming process is followed before firing and what's the most important, they come with self-destruction switches, in case they show any awkward behavior. "So now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," Zecca says quite easily for the "Danger Room".

The "National Defense" magazine informed that there are only three robots of this kind deployed in Iraq, but Zecca says he's ready to send even more machines on the battlefield the minute he'll find the funds for that, as he says: "but we don't have the money".

Is this the beginning of the end?

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