Posted on 10/31/2021 9:54:14 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The U.S. Army has plans to integrate unmanned turret on iconic Abrams Main Battle Tank, according to congressman Tim Ryan.
Congressman Tim Ryan visited Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima in August and met with men and women who manufacture the Abrams tank at the plant.
According to the congressman team’s release, Ryan has been a longtime defender of the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, most recently using his position on the powerful House Appropriations Committee to help secure $65 million to upgrade the M1 Abrams main battle tank.
“The Abrams has been proudly built by Ohio workers for over four decades. Once again I’ve seen that top-notch work firsthand and I’m immensely proud to have used my position in Congress to build on our success here in Lima. Not only will the funding I helped secure support the men and women working every day to produce the tank, it will also provide the resources needed to improve the tank’s combat eff,” Ryan said.
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How can you integrate the turret if there are no men in it?
Didn’t the armed forces integrate back in ‘48?
Unmanned tank, what could go wrong? Ask Halyna Hutchins and 42 others killed with prop guns, and 150 others seriously wounded.
An unmanned turret means, to me, that there is only the driver in the Abrams. Thus he will be one heck of an overworked person having the jobs of driver, gunner, tank commander all to do. Figuring that there will be an auto-loader, that is one job he won’t have to do.
This reminds me of the WW1 French Renault tanks that had a drive and a one man turret, with the TC doing the commanding, loader, and gunner functions.
The driver does everything?
I know what they meant. I was just cracking wise.
Maybe the commander functions will be handled by AI?
Give the driver a kill switch so it can’t be said that there isn’t a human in ultimate command.
A commander has a 360 degree view of the battlefield. I wonder how this unmanned turret picks targets, because the driver has a very limited view.
Maybe satellites pick targets and integrate with the tank's computer? The software is probably classified.
Are you saying that Alec Baldwin is a drone...could be.
more like, when nothing can go wrong, something will go wrong
I know. But if there are females in the turret, it would be unmanned in today’s woken world.
Mark l BOLO.🤔
An autonomous drone can camp out for days waiting for tanks and other vehicles to come along. Won’t go into details about sensors and sleep modes. Suffice to say the drone would wake up when the vehicles show up, and it would be capable of either performing IFF itself or phoning home to get target verification from a human.
The drones would be in a swarm which would move very quickly and deploy a large number of small shaped-charge warheads to impact the vehicles from many angles. The kill percentage would be high.
Tanks are now horses. Horses and tanks are very cool and will continue to have roles to fill. Just not on the modern battlefield against a near-peer adversary.
If they can have flying drones controlled from outside Las Vegas, I wonder what took them so long to do this in a tank. Without crew, the tank can be smaller, faster, and have more range. What’s not to like.
I imagine they can simulate the same “view” with cameras that the tank commander gets when the tank is buttoned up.
There is the possibility that they will relocate the commander and possibly a gunner into the hull much as the Armata does. I suspect that an unmanned turret could incorporate some of the hull ammo stowage, for example.
An unmanned turret on a tank that’s fighting hull down over a hill is a great way to keep casualties down as we now have evidence that front line NATO tanks are horribly vulnerable to heavy ATGM. An Armata can take a turret hit and still drive away with a wrecked turret as the crew compartment is in the hull and sealed off from the turret completely.
The same reason why remotely piloted drones suck at air combat - signal/control lag time and jamming. There’s inherent delays in telepresence from a distance.
Simply making it a remote controlled from elsewhere in the tank means no lag, but the Russians did it first so many here at FR say it’s a horrible idea, never work, gotta have men in the turret. :P
Or what took them so long to admit it? It occurs to me that one of the main reasons the Deep State is allowing a visibly woke military is that so many of the real war fighting roles have already been automated out of existence. They might be trying to bait their perceived enemies (China...or maybe conservative Americans) into trying something only to ruthlessly wipe them out with previously unrevealed remotely operated technologies.
The ‘BOLO’ line begins. How long until they are self aware?
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