What if a 10-ton tract robotic vehicle
traversed rugged high-risk terrain
adjusted to emerging enemy threats, blocked enemy advances and identified
hostile targets? What if then it send back combat
sensitive reconnaissance vehicles to
follow on manned armored units all
without needing human intervention?
While u.s army doctrine still requires
that a human be in the loop regarding
the use of lethal force. this kind of
technology is essentially here. Not only that but integrated complex and
varied missions of this kind represent
the tactical and operational scope
intended for the army's robotic combat
vehicle medium. An emerging robotic
platform now being fast tracked by the
army. General dynamics land systems one of the
vendors now competing to develop this
platform with the army has unveiled its
tracked robot 10 ton vehicle. It's called TRX an ai enabled tracked
platform built with lightweight
materials and advanced technologies to
optimize payload to weight ratio, weapons
integration, sensor performance, attack
missions and perhaps most of all manned
unmanned teaming.
TRX is engineered for a range of
missions including direct and indirect
fire, autonomous resupply, complex
obstacle breaching, counter unmanned
aerial system, electronic warfare and
reconnaissance, a GDLAS statement says.
GDLAS developers said the TRX can be
remotely operated semi-autonomous or
fully autonomous depending upon mission
requirements. it can travel with a striker-like turret
armed with a 30 millimeters cannon and
integrate a new generation of ai capable
sensors. We made it architecturally capable of
incorporating a variety of mission
packages and data processing
capabilities to allow input from sensors
to be managed and redistributed as
necessary, a senior general dynamics land
systems weapons developer told the
national interest.
The army concept is clear and can be
found simply with three words manned
unmanned teaming
forward operating robotic vehicles when
properly networked contest enemy
defenses locate high-value targets and
maneuver into high-risk hostile
territory.
In addition they can bring food, supplies
and ammunition to infantry in the line
of enemy fire all while minimizing risk
to soldiers. Should the TRX's integrated sensor suite
operate with the most cutting-edge
technologies, it will be able to gather, organize, analyze and disseminate crucial
warzone data from a wide range of
otherwise disparate air, ground or even
sea-based combat nodes autonomously.
The anticipated value of the rcvm
resides heavily in this concept of
networking and high-speed information
processing, given that future warfare is expected to
increasingly be multi-domain a suite of
integrated sensors enabled by advanced
computer algorithms. Can bring
indispensable value to combat by virtue
of being able to aggregate target info. Find points of greatest relevance, perform near real-time analytics and
transmit organized information to human
decision makers.
