No one thought that a new piece of equipment from the People's Liberation Army would allow the United States to directly break through its defenses.
During last week's congressional discussion of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, a member of the House of Representatives suddenly mentioned a new piece of equipment that China unveiled recently — a robot dog that can carry automatic rifles, and the American lawmaker demanded that the Pentagon take immediate action to assess the threat of such weapons in potential future conflicts.
Why does the United States attach so much importance to a new piece of equipment that has just emerged?
The report of the US "Defense News" pointed out that dogs are regarded as man's best friend, robot dogs have become killing tools, and China has armed robot dogs and may shoot at American soldiers, which is unacceptable to the US Congress, which prompted members of the House of Representatives to ask the Secretary of Defense to investigate "the threat this poses to US national security." At present, the proposal of "investigating China's robot dogs" put forward by this congressman has been passed due to no opposition, and it is about to enter the Senate for discussion, and it is likely to become law in the end.
Because "dogs are man's best friend", so the PLA is not allowed to use robot dogs? This is obviously nonsense, the essence of the robot dog is just a quadruped robot, but this quadruped robot in China is similar in size to a dog, so it is called a "robot dog". In addition, the United States itself has not studied the military use of robot dogs, but the development state is not ideal, so there are no results.
So why did the PLA's robot dog make the United States break its defenses so much?
There are two reasons for this:
First, China's robot dog has directly shattered the myth of science and technology in the United States.
Due to the victory of World War II and the Cold War, the United States has attracted a large number of talents in the past few decades, which has greatly enhanced the scientific and technological strength of the United States. However, with the rise of China, the leading position of the United States in science and technology is shaky, and it has actually been surpassed by China in many subdivisions, and the unmanned platform field is a representative. In the past, in the field of unmanned platforms, although China had a lead, it did not open the gap, because what China can build, most of the United States can also build, but there is a gap in performance and cost, so the United States can continue to flicker and maintain its own scientific and technological myth. But with the advent of the robot dog, the gap between China and the United States has widened, China can not the United States, this is the difference between 0 and 1, the American myth of science and technology can no longer be maintained, so the defense is broken.
Second, the emergence of robot dogs has made it impossible for the United States to fool the "Taiwan independence" elements into playing street battles and resisting to the end.
In the past, the United States pursued a "porcupine policy," claiming that it wanted to arm every person on Taiwan Island, and if it could not prevent the PLA from rushing to land on the beach, it simply played street battles, using street battles to consume the PLA and waiting for US rescue. But now, the robot dog, a street fighting artifact, has come out, how can the Taiwan army still play? The conflict between Russia and Ukraine shows that modern warfare is bound to develop towards the general trend of automation and intelligence, who is more intelligent, who is stronger, not to mention anything else, if the United States' "robot donkey" meets China's "robot dog", you don't need to think about it, the "robot donkey" will definitely fail, because its degree of automation and intelligence is far inferior to the "robot dog".
Therefore, the reason why the United States broke its defense is because of the emergence of robot dogs, which indicates that the United States is close to falling to the second place in the world, and the capital is not enough. Just like the US deputy secretary of state recently said that in the future, Chinese students will not be allowed to study science in the United States, to put it bluntly, their self-confidence will be shattered, and they are afraid that China will surpass the United States. But in fact, when the Americans think so, they themselves have already been surpassed.