No more Soldiers

This photo maybe an artist impression, but don't laugh, it is the futue of things to come. There is one point the artist did not pick up on (probably because he was not thinking of robots taking over jobs) is that there are to many humans in the picture.

An popsci.com artical, describes the Army's current plans for robots on the battlefield:

The Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program is intended to create a force that is as powerful as today's but substantially more nimble. The Army's goal is for both remote control and autonomous unmanned vehicles to be a major part of ground combat by 2010. "Military robots are being developed and fielded to do three things: perform the dull, the dirty and the dangerous (ithough most military jobs were dangerous)," says military robotics pioneer Scott D. Myers, president of General Dynamics Robotic Systems in Westminster, Maryland.

For a soldier on the battlefield, everything is dangerous. There are bullets, bombs and shrapnel whizzing through the air. Most everything happening on the battlefield is also dirty. In the near future there will be no humans on the battlefield. This is going to save the goverment millions of dollars plus the can play their little games more without worring about human life. No more Post Traumatic stress claims, pensions, training costs and expensive vehicles to get human to where they got to go.