The Canadian government awarded a $50 million contract to Norway-based multinational Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace and General Dynamics Land Systems – Canada for the delivery of the former’s Protector Remote… Continue reading "Konsberg Contracted to Provide Remote Weapon Stations to the Canadian Army"
Rheinmetall has announced that the British Armed Forces has ordered four Mission Master unmanned ground vehicles. The four Mission Masters are of the Mission Master – Cargo variant, and are… Continue reading "Britain Orders Cargo Mission Master Unmanned Ground Vehicles"
Parachuting, ejection seat and naval decoy manufacturers IrvinGQ have announced a parachute system to air drop Milrem Robotics’ THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) into operational areas. The platform uses IrvinGQ’s… Continue reading "IrvinGQ Develops Air Drop Capability for Milrem THeMIS Unmanned Ground Vehicle"
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is about to undertake the biggest organisational and doctrinal change in its history. With peer threats the ever more likely future conflict scenario, the… Continue reading "US Marine Corps Historic Restructure for 2030 China Pivot"
Under Project Theseus, the UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have procured five test-bed unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). Contracts have been awarded to Horiba Mira… Continue reading "UK Purchase Titan and Viking Unmanned Ground Vehicles"
The US Army has issued a new RFP (request for proposal) for the Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport (SMET) requirement after General Dynamics’ Land Systems’ (GLDS) contract to supply their MUTT… Continue reading "US Army Restarts SMET Unmanned Ground Vehicle Competition"
Rheinmetall Defence Australia have announced the formation of Autonomous Combat Warrior (ACW) in collaboration with a number of Australian government and private research entities. The aim is to develop technology… Continue reading "Australian Rheinmetall Launch Autonomous Combat Warrior"
The wargaming phase of the annual Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments (AEWE) has begun at Fort Benning, Georgia with a range of new and emerging technologies being trialed in force on… Continue reading "US Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments 2020 Underway"
US firm Robotic Research has unveiled their Pegasus Mini, a smaller version of their Pegasus unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) family that can also operate as an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV),… Continue reading "Robotic Research Launches Mini Transformable UAV/UGV"
Whilst all the attention has been focused on the success of QinetiQ’s and Textron’s wins with the RCV-L and RCV-M (Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light and Medium respectively) contracts for the US… Continue reading "General Dynamics SMET Robot MUTT Contract Cancelled"