Sending a robot in first: The 700 Club looks at the Pentagon's battlefield machines
Viewers answered with The Terminator, Battlestar Galactica and one practical question: what happens when someone sets off an EMP?
The 700 Club
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 57,241 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (4,590).
These Military Robots Are Advancing Faster Than You Think
The most dangerous minutes in a war, the report argues, are the ones spent clearing a building or walking unknown ground with no idea what waits around the corner. "These Military Robots Are Advancing Faster Than You Think" looks at an answer that used to belong to science fiction: let a machine go through the door first.
According to the description, robots like these are already part of America's arsenal, and the report places them inside a wider Pentagon push into autonomous systems. It quotes Pete Hegseth, whom the description calls Secretary of War, telling an audience at SpaceX that the United States must win the contest for technological supremacy in this century, from artificial intelligence to hypersonics and long-range drones.
That is a long way from a typical upload on the flagship program of the Christian Broadcasting Network, the network Pat Robertson founded in 1960. Eleven hours in, the report had passed 37,000 views. A regular video here usually finishes its whole first day below 5,000. It also ran well ahead of the full October 6 episode, which led with Russia testing NATO and went up the same day.
The comments, already more than twice a usual full day's worth, read like a film festival program. Viewers bring up The Terminator, Battlestar Galactica, an old Star Trek episode and 1980s shows about bionic men, and one borrows a Star Wars line about sending a droid in first. Others get practical: could an EMP or a hacker turn a robot army against its owners, and what happens to people's jobs? One viewer points to a moment when a fallen robot is lifted onto a stretcher. Fitting for this channel, several read the whole thing as a sign of the last days.
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- Channel
- The 700 Club
- Subscribers
- 909,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,544,439
- Channel views, pace per day
- 193,427 (on a normal day: 187,226)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 37,665 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 57,241
The numbers
A report on military robots started far faster than the channel's regular videos, and its comment section was busier too.
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Viewers bring up The Terminator. Who directed the original 1984 film?
James Cameron co-wrote and directed The Terminator, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and came out in 1984.
