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Years of Research For Letting Your Enemy To Know Where You Are

Many years ago, some armies love to let their enemies to hear footsteps of armies to frighten. One of the best examples of that tactic is from Ottoman Empire. Army orchestra came to almost every battle.

Yusuf Demir
Yusuf DemirCloud & Software Reporter
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Years of Research For Letting Your Enemy To Know Where You Are

Many years ago, some armies love to let their enemies to hear footsteps of armies to frighten. One of the best examples of that tactic is from Ottoman Empire. Army orchestra came to almost every battle. Their anthem discourages many of their enemies.

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But today, the way of the war have been changed. Soldiers need to be quite, if the enemy knows where or which direction the soldiers are coming from,  they even eliminate them with some artillery or mortar fire before you reach the target. And if there were no bombs, the enemy will be ready for the soldiers, and that can be deadly.
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The U.S. Army now has a new robot that made for helping the Marines during any operation. It called AlphaDog which developed by Boston Dynamics. This Robo-Dog can carry 400 pounds of gear which are enough for long distance operations; it can work 20 miles range and 24 hours long, can control by voice command and excellent with different types of terrains. These features make the dog very useful companion for the soldiers. But there is one problem that make the AlphaDog not desirable; it is too noisy, of course, Marines do some operations, in which they don’t need to be quite, but still Marines don’t want the Robo-Dog walk next to them.
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AlphaDog project cost $42 million and five years of research, and now, the army will pull the plug off this project. But it is highly possible it will be used on domestic missions like disasters. It carries many types of medicalmedical equipment for the people who will need them.
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Yusuf Demir

Yusuf Demir

Cloud & Software Reporter

Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.

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