Talk:Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle
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[edit] Face To Face
The last paragraph talking about face to face communication should be deleted. First, it even notes that it hasn't even been proposed (and I know no one even considered it) and second, that would be the most pointless thing in the world. All communication would take place through radio, a web cam image of the operator is just a "feel-good" thing that some hospitals are using. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.185.119.34 (talk • contribs)
Although the idea has not yet been proposed, the gladiator could be outfitted with a webcam displaying the face of the gladiator operator, enabling "face to face" communication. This type of telerobotic communication would allow translators the ability to do their job out of harms way, seated next to the gladiator operator inside a protected facility, greatly increasing the number of native born translator recruits in situations like Iraq. The purpose of equipping the gladiator with a “webcam face” would be to augment the ability for the U.S. soldier to communicate with occupied civilians, via an unmanned vehicle without threatening civilians by the need to provide security for soldiers themselves. Indeed, a unmanned soldier which does not need to provide for its own security would operate with much more benign rules of engagement, possibly changing the dynamic of the politics of occupation, by making occupation safer for the occupied citizen and by enabling greater solider to civilian communication through encouraging greater recruitment of translators. Out with traditional manned soldiers and in with unmanned soldiers or as I call them suicide liberators, selfless defenders of occupied civilians’ freedom.
- This is still WP:OR, so it is not proper for the article. --Falcorian (talk) 19:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Uzi?
Are you sure Uzis will be mounted on Gladiators? The USA only uses Uzis in a few Spec ops units, and they will soon fase them out, plus, I don't see the practicality of mounting a machine pistol on a vehicle. QZXA2 21:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
