Could the Mars Rover Technology become Military Weapons?

Robots have and are being, used for military purposes. I'd like to think
though, that the moon is a little bit far away to use for such things aimed
at earth.
What is more worrying is the trend from man in the loop warfare to man
advisory warfare when the human only intervenes in an emergency and most of
the decisions are made autonomously.

Brian

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Just food for thought.

Why put people on the Moon as part of a missile defense shield?
When we could have a rover climb into some little bunker/crater
and send back all kinds of infrared and radar tracking data.
Safe, sound and cheap.

This idea crossed my mind only because I ran into
this website below, which curiously has a Mars Rover
on the front page. Notice this agency specializes
in spaced based radar and infrared capabilities.
Why not Moon based too, someday?


SPACE VEHICLES DIRECTORATE PRODUCT LINES

Battlespace Environment - The mission of the Battlespace
Environment Division is to detect and understand the threats
in the aerospace environment to warfighting systems across
the full range of natural and man-made sources, and to
provide active and passive means to eliminate/mitigate
such threats to support Air and Space Forces for
America's Global Engagement."
http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/f...et.asp?id=7876


Maybe someday Chinese and US rovers will be hiding, hunting
and killing each other in a fight for the ultimate high ground.
The Moon and it's glorious view of Battlespace Earth.

Oh, and how much has the military contributed to the rovers?


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