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Thanks for sharing LTC (Join to see) the update on remote-controlled ground combat vehicle with direct fire weapons. As long as they are using conventional munitions and can be controlled and overridden by local forces if they are hacked, I have no issue with remotely controlled ground combat vehicle and recognize they have a potential for use in southwest Asia and north Africa and other areas where the terrain would support the use of these types of vehicles.
"In a historic first, the Army conducted a live fire exercise with a remote-controlled ground combat vehicle armed with a .50-caliber machine gun. It plans to conduct more exercises with more heavily armed ground robots within the next couple of years.
The demonstration was part of the annual Northern Strike exercise, which took place last July and August at Michigan’s Camp Grayling. Primarily geared toward reserve units, this year’s event debuted an unmanned, heavily armed M113 armored personnel carrier. The driver and the weapons operator followed behind in a slightly larger M577 command post vehicle.
“The scenario here was a complex breach in a minefield,” Paul Rogers, director of the Army’s Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC, said at the AUVSI conference on Wednesday. “You had engineer platoons with infantry support going in and putting in bangalore torpedos,” long tubes of explosives used to clear mines, he said. The remotely piloted M113 provided suppressive fire as the engineers worked.
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Not exactly a new concept. The Army had started with the EOD TALON robot with a 240 or 249 on too in the early 2000s. I know they have tried bigger robotic platforms and more complicated weapons on them, so business as usual. Nice post, LTC (Join to see)

Now, about this name: Army’s Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC
Really?! TARDEC? LMAO

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