questions: battery life, recharge time, does it have to return to a charger unit or can charger brought to it?
Posted on 10/13/2020 6:32:01 AM PDT by pingman
Textron Systems announced Thursday that it will deliver an all-electric version of its M5 Ripsaw Robotic Combat Vehicle prototype to the U.S. Army for experimentation next year. Earlier this year, the Army selected a Textron team to develop its subsidiary Howe & Howe's unmanned vehicle for the service's Robotic Combat Vehicle, or RCV, Medium platform. The Army wants to develop a light, medium and heavy version of the RCV to give commanders the option of sending unmanned vehicles into combat against enemy forces. The service selected QinetiQ North America to build four light versions of the RCV. Textron is scheduled to deliver four prototypes of its 10-ton M5, which resembles a lightweight tank powered by diesel and hybrid electric motors, by the end of the year.
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questions: battery life, recharge time, does it have to return to a charger unit or can charger brought to it?
Yup, but that’s the photo in the article.
Original Waterboro, ME Howe & Howe location, but he’s travelled to Slidell on several occasions.
bearing down on you...
Its modular - you can put any sort of weapon on the flat surface including the gun turret shown
I think that’s a 30mm cannon from what I’m seeing elsewhere, so that helps a little.
What are we going to do with all of our old tankers? And, who fixes it when it throws a track?
Tracks are Kevlar-reinforced rubber compound, kept taut by a series of tensioners. They’ve never thrown a track yet, but then again, no one is throwing live fire at them. The fact that this little dandy will do about 70 mph while firing away makes them a hard target to hit while running on battery (no substantial heat signature).
Thanks, but the problem is not return fire, it’s mud, both unfrozen and frozen. Earlier vehicles had similar tracks and they would throw a track. It happens.
I just watched the video another poster linked to. The tank seems to be about 7.5 feet high to the top of the turret. It’s much bigger than you would think looking at the picture in the article.
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