[Bobalu]

We need remotely operated heavy transport trucks to handle this sort of thing.

Put the soldiers operating them in relative safety aboard tanks near the convoys or in copters escorting the convoys.

If we can create remotely piloted aircraft that fly from the US all the way to Iraq and back on their own then why not heavy trucks without soldiers in them performing transport duties?

It seems like a relatively simple technical accomplishment to me.... amateur radio operators build remotely piloted model aircraft that they can fly by joystick while sitting in front of a computer screen looking at the view from a small camera mounted on the model... how much harder could operating a truck be?

[charleston1]

"It seems like a relatively simple technical accomplishment to me...."

How do you propose the gears be shifted on those big rigs? There are not enough Yoda-like Jedi knights to go around.

[sonofagun]

We need remotely operated heavy transport trucks to handle this sort of thing. Put the soldiers operating them in relative safety aboard tanks near the convoys or in copters escorting the convoys.

Good idea. Then we wouldn't have to use highly trained combat soldiers for that job.

We could contract it out and keep our warriors safe.

:^O

[freepatriot32]

I saw a news report about 2 months ago where the army was offering a million dollar prize for the first person that could come up ith a remote control full size truck that could run a 100 mile course in the desert.There were 20 teams i think but no one was able to pull it off the sand and dust shorted them out and obscured the lenses I think