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The Army is developing robot resupply vehicles

Updated: September 22, 2017 at 3:15 pm EST  See Comments

Soldiers with the Army’s 1st Armored Division wrapped up their latest training evolution showcasing the Army’s newest capabilities in autonomous resupply vehicles, according to an Army release.

The demonstration was conducted at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, Michigan.

Soldiers carried out the training using the Army’s latest automated technology known as Autonomous Ground Resupply, or AGR. The testing evolution consisted of soldiers conducting manned and optionally unmanned resupply missions.

“Sustainment and resupply convoys are critical to providing combatant commanders with freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolonged endurance,” said Bernard Theisen, a project manager with the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC, in a press release. “We’re focused on reducing Soldiers’ vulnerability to the effects of enemy action when conducting this important mission.”

The US Army is developing autonomous armored vehicles

A recent demonstration featured a robotized Polaris MRZR military all- terrain vehicle with a tethered drone, an automated M113 armored personnel carrier, and a self-driving Humvee with an automated machine gun.

By: Shawn Snow

One component of the training evolution was testing a new capability known as leader-follower “where a lead vehicle in a convoy is manually driven and the following vehicles in the convoy receive data and commands from the lead vehicle,” the press release reads.

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