With global defence forces continuing to develop autonomous technologies, recent demonstrations of such capabilities are helping to inform decision makers on the readiness of such systems.
To this end the US Army Tank Automotive Research and Development Centre (TARDEC) and UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory jointly embarked on a robotics demonstration in October 2017 to show how the unmanned systems of the future can assist last mile logistics.
The effort, which took place at Camp Grayling, Michigan, involved unmanned trucks formed into autonomous convoys, unmanned aerial vehicles, and an unmanned all-terrain 4x4.
The convoy trucks were equipped with TARDEC’s
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As countries increasingly move away from Chinese drone manufacturing and focus on domestic production and collaboration, Europe and the US are well-placed to step in – although cost remains a crucial consideration.
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PDW has revealed its Attritable Multirotor First Person View drone at SOF Week 2025, offering special operations forces a low-cost, rapidly deployable platform for strike and ISR missions, inspired by battlefield lessons from Ukraine.
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