Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
I was unaware lazers could stop high velocity metal, and countermeasures require the robot to carry extra ammunition, not a problem for large vehicles I suppose but puts a crimp on husar's mini bots.
You do not use mini bots alone, a large bot has to have some defense if it operates alone or in a small group, but if you have cheap, mosquito-sized, expendable mini bots, you won't just send 5 of them into a town, you send huge swarms of thousands. And besides, against a human soldier even one of them might win because first of all the human soldier has to detect it, and even if he does detect it in time, he has to hit it using his unwieldy stick where the high velocity projectile comes out. Now the projectile is small and the bot is small while the human is slow and flawed. The bot is probably nimble, can disappear depending on the background and so on. Another bot may swat it out of the sky, but with humans I'm not so sure, especially if the human progrmmer on the other side taught the bot not to sit in the middle of a white spot or show predictable flying patterns like actual mosquitoes often do.

As for deflecting AK rounds, I don't see why anyone would want to. Seems like a waste of active countermeasures if even bots of mediocre size can probably be armored well enough while the AK can also fire a lot of rounds and active countermeasures are often limited in use.
They are more likely to be used against tank rounds and other large caliber projectiles.

As for a laser stopping those, of course it can, depends on the power of the laser.