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In regards to my comment about the stick breaking, remember how Hodgie said there would be some pretty inventive ways to break this thing? Well that applies to the stick too and I don't think it would be a good idea to equip troops with something that had to be ditched because it's control stick broke.

Yes but your logic also applies to rifles, relatively complicated sticks soldiers do break and not unusually ditch that generally cost over $1000 apiece for frontline infantry models.

But you don't see any military abandoning issuing them because of that. The same applies to everything from canteens to goggles all the way to humvees and fighter jets. "Someone could break it", when applied to a group of people whose job is breaking things will receive the reply "Of course". Everything can be broken, EVERYTHING. It's not a reason not to use it.

Wireless could be useable for droid purposes, but I definitely think that is a peripheral application. If it dumps a load of ammo at 30 MPH it's no big deal. Human interface leans toward something more solid and balance is something that has to be addressed. (And if this thing uses the balance of its rider, shooting from it would be right out. Try controlling an automatic weapon from a skateboard to hit an also-moving target, now multiply the problems by 3.)

Droid uses could work from something far simpler in practice, 9 times out of 10 it could be based on optical or other method of playing "follow the leader" behind the soldier it's working with. Tight line optical or IR methods are superior for that sort of work in the lower power ranges.

(I would also point out that most off-the-shelf multi antenna wifi devices have all the hardware needed to guide a small rocket to a target close enough to make a small grenade lethal to a wifi user.)