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Army Plans To Replace, Automate Tactical Truck Fleets

Tuesday, August 25th, 2015

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The U.S. Army plans to modernize nearly its entire medium and heavy tactical truck fleet by 2025, then give them robot brains so they can drive convoys--even in urban terrain--without soldiers behind the wheel, Lt. Gen. Larry Wyche, deputy commander of Army Materiel Command, said Aug. 25Wyche explained how the Army would "deliver adaptable, flexible, sustainment to our soldiers." The answer is what he called the "truck of the future," he said at the annual Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Conference, hosted…

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