Posted on 06/06/2020 6:57:00 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The Estonian company Milrem Robotics is trying to revolutionize the global defense industry by developing a new type of unmanned tracked IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) for mechanized units, a Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) designated Type-X. Although it is not a tank, the Type-X moves on tracks and has a turret.
Milrem Robotics is best known for its THeMIS UGV which is operated by several countries, namely the French armed forces in Mali. Milrem Robotics founder and CEO Kuldar Väärsi said that a new long-term goal is to replace all old-style infantry fighting vehicles with new systems. He is convinced that, as in many other areas of life, the defense industry will become increasingly robot dependent in the future, and fewer and fewer people will be involved in the heart of combat operations.
What makes the Type-X unique, he says, is the combination of three elements: a hybrid transmission (electric and diesel), the ability to operate in a fully autonomous mode, and the absence of a crew. So far, some of the existing infantry fighting vehicles have been modified to provide remote control capability, and optional manned vehicles are also being created. "I think these solutions are similar to townhouses, which have the disadvantages of both apartments and houses at the same time, with almost no advantages," said Väärsi.
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This really is a unmanned light armored vehicle.
think the new thing is robotics wiping out live organisms
I understand it’s unmanned. There is no one inside of it. But with those dimensions, it pretty much looks like it could have a crew. I would expect an unmanned vehicle to be proportioned much differently from a manned vehicle.
the size will be for batteries
so you cant hear them moving around
batteries are still lame so large space needed
Plus, it will still need to have maintenance as well as having its ammo replenished, by a human.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
I’m certainly no expert, but I recall reading somewhere that armored vehicles were much more vulnerable to enemy infantry unless the vehicles had their own infantry supporting/protecting them.
if it can pickup peeps, it can load ammo.
you can do that with drones no people needed.,
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I wasn’t thinking about drones (told you I was no expert).
Armored vehicles will be essentially useless against a high level adversary in a few years. Already air launched precision munitions are nearly 100% effective against armored vehicles, and there are currently no known stealth techniques for armored vehicles that can conceal them sufficiently from modern airborne sensing systems.
As long as an adversary can operate airborne attack vehicles, they will be able to destroy any armor in the battlefield.
In that context unmanned armor is only useful in some situations where the opponent lacks sophisticated weapons systems, or where the unmanned armor is protected by total airspace domination.
That problem also exists with manually controlled weapon systems but successfully raiding a base and driving the tanks away may be much harder than remotely penetrating the control system and hijacking the tanks while sitting at a desk a thousand miles away.
You still have to accommodate the machinery. The thing has the proportions of a light tank, but it’s too small for the three man crew you’d need. Look at the soldier graphic for size scale.
You are forgetting that tanks are getting increasingly more effective Active Protection Systems. Current gen ones can shoot some artillery rounds and submunitions out of the sky, deflect other tank main gun rounds, automatically engage ground attack aircraft and helicopters, etc. - and these are capabilities that have been demonstrated to work in the real world.
The balance is not going all the flyboys’ way.
Or the CIA or some such could just land a newly deployed stealth drone in Iran.
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