Mechanized Autonomous Weapon

Mechanized Autonomous Weapons or "MAWS", were a type of autonomous or semi-autonomous heavy armor originally constructed in secret as an alternative to mutual assured destruction or "MAD". Originally 34 were constructed only by 4 of the 5 permanent UN Security Councilors; the United States, China, France and the Soviet Union - the Soviets alone developing 19 of the weapons between 1968 and 1991 - as a means to phase out nuclear weapons, eventually the aforementioned superpowers' allies began to construct less advanced iterations, leading to the rise of various sub-categories of MAW, the Command Units and the Scout Units, and - in time - China, Cuba, Poland and Russia would design even larger iterations than the originals known as Tank Units.
Information and evidence on the existence of these weapons would not start being disclosed to the general populace until the late-2010's, with the first posts of the weapons first appearing on the dark web on 30 January 2018 on a site called "shadowpolice.on" with a North Korean defector posting anonymously on the site to expose the "global shadow police cabal" involving North Korea, Cuba and the United States, claiming that North Korea had received 2 of the weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union in the late-1980's to early-1990's.
==Scout/Reconnaissance Unit==
===Operators===
 Arab League: 5
 South Korea: 3
 Taiwan: 3
 United States: 2
 Belgium: 2
 Denmark: 2
 France: 2
 Norway: 2
 Sweden: 2
 North Korea: 2
 Brazil: 1
 Turkey: 1
 Hungary: 1
 India: 1
 Pakistan: 1
 Cuba: 1
==Command/Control Unit==
===Operators===
 China: 6
 United States: 6
 Azerbaijan-Bukhara: 5
 Japan: 4
 France: 2
 South Korea: 1
 Netherlands: 1
==Tank/Assault Unit==
===Operators===
 Cuba: 3 (1 trainer)
 Azerbaijan-Bukhara: 2
 China: 2
 Poland: 2
 Russia: 2
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