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Navy/USMC

Marines Test The Future Of Amphibious Warfare: Unmanned Systems

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

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Marines Test The Future Of Amphibious Warfare: Unmanned Systems

Marines prepared assault amphibious vehicles (AAVs) for an exercise at Camp Pendleton, Calif., on April 26, 2017.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Once a remote-controlled assault amphibious vehicle trundled ashore here, it stopped and released from its hold a ground robot that continued its way across the wide beach before stopping and launching a quadcopter from its back.The tracked ground robot was accompanied by another wheeled unmanned vehicle topped with a .50 caliber machine gun. At any one time a half-dozen or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of varying shapes and sizes flitted overhead. In some cases they…

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