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Originally Posted by Niri Te

OR they could just do what I did, and JOIN the REAL Army, have the Army pay to train them how to fly Helicopters, and spend the rest of their Military career GETTING PAID to fly 20 million dollar aerial hot rods. REALITY, what a concept.
Niri Te

It'd probably be an order of magnitude cheaper - not to mention more efficient - in the long run to use remote-controlled Avatars than actual people. Assuming you can actually get the interface to the soldier working properly, I'm not sure what advantage a soldier in the field could have over this idea.

Originally Posted by Fkeu'itan

I don't get it.

If the future of warfare is supposedly going to be to having a bunch of proxy robot soldiers fighthing each other, why not scrap the whole 'war' thing altogether?

Humans are hilarious.

Because then you don't get the loot.
(I can't really understand why you're asking this unless you think the point of war is to kill people. That's just a means to an end. )