How long do you think it will be until the combat infantryman is completely phased out?

Question

Do you think it will be replaced by robots or what?

Answer 1

omg...put the aerosol can down.  

Answer 2

i have no doubt that one day there wil be no men on the ground, but at the same time battles are changing, they were once faught with hundreds of people in open fields slaughterung each other, now days a battle can consist of 3 on 3 in a street shoot out for 5 minutes. what will the future hold?

Answer 3

I don't think the infantryman will ever be completely phased out. Guns and planes and everything else may be used to fight wars, but it's the grunt who wins the war.  

Answer 4

They're more important than ever, and it'll be a long time before any robot can be as effective and versatile, if ever.

And babies will probably always be cheaper to make than robots you know.

I think it would be like, um, great, if some kind of small, ATV like robot or servo with a machine gun on it, say,  was fielded at some point. I think it might even be practical to do an AI controlled one.  

Imagine some machine out there killing people with full autonomy.  Science marches on.

But I doubt they'd ever replace infantry

Answer 5

never.

Answer 6

It will never be replaced. There will always be Infantryman. My bf is at Basic now training for it. Robots?! Please

Answer 7

Why stop any time soon? They've served their purpose well for thousands of years.

The advent of artillery, machine guns, military aircraft, tanks and nuclear bombs has done nothing to diminish their use. You'll always need the highly flexible infantry on the ground to seize and control territory.

There'll probably be infantrymen in one form or another until the whole race dies out, whether it's a bloke with a pike, a soldier with a rifle or a man controlling a mechanical suit.

Answer 8

Never. Regardless of how mechanized, how sophisticated weaponry becomes, you still  need a grunt on the ground to go in and do the cleaning up.