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| - Don't know for sure BUT... Would be unlikely. A HK might carry Terminators as a troop transport but not as pilots Reasons: 1) Terminators are vehicles (robots) piloted by a computer in their heads, makes more sense to have the HK piloted by a computer in the "cockpit" than built a real cockpit for a Terminator pilot. 2) Simpler operating system. The HK's pilot computer would just need to fly itself, like a bird's brain flies its body. Rather than a terminator pilot's OS having to control a humanoid and aircraft body. Also terminators don't seem very bright, a dedicated HK pilot computer could be bigger and smarter, indeed a group of interlinked computers (Command, Flight, Sensors/Nav and Weapons)would make sense (bigger body more room for brains). Was going to expand more on the above, but could be a long answer. In brief, you can have a robot any shape or size you want. You are not limited by a human crew, this is why current military robots (really remote controlled with some limited self direction)are often smaller than the vehicles they replace. though you can make them bigger. Think of these robots as human crewed vehicles with the crew replaced by computers, cameras and mechanical devices to mimic the physical tasks still done by the crew (loaders on tanks and self propelled guns for example) If you think about it, the humanoid skeleton terminators are the least logical design. The infiltrators make some sense but would be more effective mimicking women or children. A "Trash can" terminator (it looks like a trash can, sits and waits for it's targets,shoots them, moves to a new location only in the dead of night) would be deadly. A dog infiltrator would be ironic (my terminator sniffer dog is growling at that other dog) would be ironic A rat infiltrator (looks like a rat, carries a small bomb) would be letal.
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