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Army Focusing Robotic Combat Vehicle Effort On Light Variant For Now, Bush Says

Army Focusing Robotic Combat Vehicle Effort On Light Variant For Now, Bush Says
QinetiQ and Pratt Miller deliver first RCV-L vehicle to U.S. Army GVSC personnel at Selfridge Air National Guard Base on November 5, 2020. Photo: QinetiQ.

While the Army has experimented with both light and medium versions of Robotic Combat Vehicles (RCV), the service’s top acquisition official has confirmed the service plans to move ahead for now with a focus on developing the light variant, the RCV-L. “The Army is still broadly, of course, interested in robots of many different sizes. But we’re focusing on RCV-L because we think that’s a necessary first step before going to larger platforms,” Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army…

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