Warbot 1.0 Novel "Stay Behinds"

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These are inspired by the novel Warbot 1.0: AI Goes to War by Brian M. Michelson. Very similar in concept to the 1980s Warbot series by G. Harry Stine, but closer in spirit to Team Yankee and with insights into how AI, big data, and social media could impact armed conflicts of the near future. From the novel: "The stay-behinds were rapidly inflating decoys that gave the same thermal and visual signature of a full-sized vehicle and could fire a singe kinetic shot." The print shown is 5 cm in length and was printed on a ToyBox. https://www.mentormilitary.com/Warbot-1-0-AI-Goes-to-War-Brian-Michelson-p/mic-warbot.htm The other vehicles shown are similar to Razorbacks from Warbots 1.0 and can be found here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5448940 From the novel: "With an abundance of nearly obsolete Strykers in the Army inventory following the Kaliningrad campaign, they were cheaper and quicker to automate as an interim solution until the HOMRRs and the next generation of vehicles entered the inventory."