AUSA 2025: Oshkosh unveils a new line of UGVs
The Family of Multi-Mission Autonomous Vehicles has been designed to operate in contested environments and support long-range precision fires, resilient formations and crewed/uncrewed teaming.
The UK’s Land Warfare Centre and Swedish company Saab have developed a counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) training system to best prepare troops for operations in Afghanistan.
According to Saab which financed development of the system itself, the trainer was demonstrated to UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials in Kenya last week to much acclaim.
Saab Training Systems marketing and sales manager, Ingemar Carlsson, told LWI that the company had a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with the Land Warfare Centre for procurement of an undisclosed number of systems.
The trainer comprises a sensor which is fitted to the Vallon handheld detector, designed to
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The Family of Multi-Mission Autonomous Vehicles has been designed to operate in contested environments and support long-range precision fires, resilient formations and crewed/uncrewed teaming.
Moog’s The Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP) base module has been displayed as integrated on a range of platforms to meet air defence requirements and is in use as part of the US Army’s SGT Stout programme.
The company is currently involved in the US Army Common Tactical Truck and the US Marine Corps Medium Tactical Truck programmes.
Following its participation in a live-fire event with the US Marine Corps, the Global Ordnance Scorpion Light 81mm mobile mortar system will now be tested by the US Army.
Loitering munitions provide vital capabilities in the disrupted and unpredictable modern battlespace, from real-time ISR to a virtually “on demand” strike capability. Rafael is looking to the future of the technology, empowering systems to operate with increasing autonomy in hostile environments.
The British Army’s Land Mobility Programme is the golden ring for vehicle makers across the world and particularly industry in the UK, with a prize of billions of dollars across three programmes.