>>582321
>CY+15
>shortages of qualified personnel among the US army have lead to overseas casuality numbers above the ZOG-approved quota with no end in sight due to ever declining numbers of skilled white men in active service and continued resistance by chinese and russian funded rebels
>Lockheeb Martin, GD, Raytheon and Jewgle are contracted to solve the issue by developing a legged infantry support robot
>The MA-78I Clinton is the result
>A quadruped with a max speed of 18km/h, range of 20km without external fuel, an optional ATGM mount that slows it down to 3km/h while fucking up the leg joints in the process, 2 frontal gun mounts containing G-11s with an autoloader that never works and has to be manually unjammed in the field, an AESA radar, a "cargo" compartment the size of 3 PS3s, tiny retractable hands for opening doors and pushing buttons even though the damn thing is too huge to fit through any door combined with unreliably fragile communications equipment all running on 60 million lines of code written by Indian women
>Congress is amazed, buys several hundred of them for 6 gorillion shekels and ships them to the Congolese and Iranian fronts right away
>Originally the bots were supposed to operate mostly autonomously via voice commands, however the AI crashes itself with no survivors in the dense african rainforest so the soldiers resort to remote controlling it like a regular drone
>Motors wear out or fail in the humid climate at an alarming rate as do the autoloaders, the atrocious range requires frequent presence of refueling drones giving away the bot's position
>the bots' weight also tends to set off IEDs and Landmines, mine detector doesn't work too well in mud
>Field engineers remove most of the armor plating and cut the cables to the AESA radar as it's useless bloat in dense jungle and keeps sending telemetry to nearby drone aircraft even when turned off
>now it doesn't get stuck in the mud as much, but the lack of armor makes it die excessively fast in firefights
>engineers jury rig the ATGM mount to carry an M249, turn the robot into a semi-stationary automated sentry to avoid further faggotry
>complaint from animal rights groups however further complicate even this, as videos have emerged in which sentries confuse chimpanzees with enemy soldiers and kill them
>after applying the resulting updates the AI won't fire on Congolese rebels unless an operator shuts it off and takes manual control
<meanwhile in Iran
>The bot has less issues walking on a dry rocky environment and the AESA radar actually sort of werks in picking out insurgents at a distance
>until its signal characteristics are picked up by russian hackers, after which it becomes a missile magnet
>It is thus once again repurposed as a sentry, this time carrying anti-vehicle sniper raifus and actual ATGMs
>there are also a few attempts at using stripped down bots as expendable recon units, but those were abandoned after an unfortunate incident in which insurgents jammed the comms, followed the bot as it was passing its preset checkpoints autonomously, approached it from behind dressed as bears to fool the AI, snuck a remote controlled IED in the cargo compartment and waited until it had reached its base
>After that incident resulting in the loss of at least 6,000,000 million shekels worth of military hardware in a ddition to numerous human casualties and the bots' removal from active service in Iran Lockheeb presents to Congress an upgrage package containing fully fledged hands in the front legs allowing the robot to manipulate weapons and other things while standing up on its hind legs to intimidate the enemy in urban combat
>Congress is so impressed that the DoD cancels a fully developed bipedal earthquake+nuclear disaster robot from Northrop Grumman in favor of a badly stripped down MA-78 variant that can't even walk up stairs properly