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Gen. Milley Army Wants Armed Ground Robot Prototype Vehicles by 2019

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Channel: Samuel Ezerzer · 2018 · News & Politics

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Senate Armed Services Committee Hears Testimony From Top Army Leaders
After 20 years of cancelled programs, the Army now wants prototypes of all-new robotic and “optionally manned” combat vehicles by 2019 so soldiers can begin field-testing them in 2020. Compared to current vehicles, they’ll be lighter, smaller and optimized for urban combat, said Brig. Gen. David Lesperance, head of the armor school at Fort Benning, Ga. and the hand-picked head of the service’s Cross-Functional Team on future ground vehicles.
Army Wants Armed Ground Robot Prototype by 2019
The new combat vehicles must be "optimized for fighting in dense urban terrain." Fighting in narrow streets, in turn, requires smaller vehicles than the massive M1 -- and one way to reduce weight is to take the humans out.

WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES
04.12.2018
  Army Secretary Mark T. Esper and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley testify at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Army's posture in review of its fiscal year 2019 budget and the Future Years Defense Program, April 12, 2018.

Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley created the Cross Functional Teams last fall to advance his Big Six modernization priorities. What’s called Next-Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) is No. 2, second only to long-range artillery and missiles. Until this week, however, the CFTs have kept quiet. But Gen. Milley promised the Army would seek “radical,” ten-fold improvements in technology on a tight timeline. Lesperance’s proposal would definitely deliver on that promise — if it works.

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