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Army

Army Will Team Robots With Tanks Next Summer

Friday, December 16th, 2016

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Army Will Team Robots With Tanks Next Summer

M1A1 Abrams tank of Bravo Company, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, USMC Reserves, preparing for a live fire exercise at Yakima Training Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord. (U.S. Army photo by Sidney Lee, Enterprise Multimedia Center, JBLM.)

The Army has plans to team robotic ground vehicles with M1 Abrams tanks in much the same way it has already done with AH-64 Apache helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles.An experiment is planned for next summer at Fort Benning, Ga., to study the operational utility of an “Abrams Lethality Enabler” that will be controlled by a crew member inside the tank, according to Maj. Gen. Bo Dyess, deputy chief of the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) at Training and Doctrine…

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