link to original reddit post by /u/Anenome5

https://dnyuz.com/2021/09/18/the-scientist-and-the-a-i-assisted-remote-control-killer-robot/

...But it was also the debut test of a high-tech, computerized sharpshooter kitted out with artificial intelligence and multiple-camera eyes, operated via satellite and capable of firing 600 rounds a minute.

The souped-up, remote-controlled machine gun now joins the combat drone in the arsenal of high-tech weapons for remote targeted killing. But unlike a drone, the robotic machine gun draws no attention in the sky, where a drone could be shot down, and can be situated anywhere, qualities likely to reshape the worlds of security and espionage...

We are nearing a world where drones are becoming an army replacement. And that means good and bad things, as with most new tech.

For one thing, it means that war can, in theory, be conducted without risking human lives. Many have speculated that a future could emerge where war is primarily a competition of hardware, like a game of battlebots, where groups send their robots to battle against other robots, and the side that wins this conflict ends up winning the war by demonstrating the capability to kill people but not actually having to do so, because the losing side at that point surrenders.

In a more libertarian future, we could use machines to perform regional defense that can level the odds against nation-states intent on attacking a libertarian society, should such a scenario present itself.

Nukes themselves are not great weapons from a libertarian point of view, as they kill indiscriminately, not just military targets. I'll leave here a couple sources for those interested:

American Policy Pushes Iran Toward Nuclear Weapons

The Economics of Nuclear Weapons

Do Nuclear Weapons Deter?

The UN, International Law, and Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation or Monopoly?

Decentralize the Nuclear Arsenals

The United States Is a Nuclear Dictatorship

"Weapons of Mass Destruction": The Last Refuge of the Global Interventionist

Why No State Needs Thousands of Nuclear Warheads

One last thing: fuck war.