The British army showed photos from the first tests of heavy land transport robots

The UK conducted a two-week test of the effectiveness of heavy land vehicles robots, that is, unmanned vehicles that are designed to perform various tasks on the battlefield. This was reported in a special statement on the website of the government of the United Kingdom.

The tests involved unmanned vehicles of several companies from around the world. Milrem from Estonia, Rheinmetall from Germany and Elbit from Israel showed their products. The main selection criterion was that the car belonged to the “heavy” category, that is, the weight was more than five tons.

The presented unmanned vehicles were tested for speed, maneuverability, operation of communications, and all this - in conditions as close as possible to combat. The British government calls the tests the first step to further study the possibilities and prospects of such unmanned vehicles in modern warfare.

It was exciting to test these platforms, see what they can do and what can potentially be achieved on the battlefield with unmanned vehicles in the next 10, 20 or 30 years.

- said British Army Lieutenant Colonel James de St. John-Price

However, some unmanned vehicles are already involved in modern conflicts. For example, the Estonian company Milrem Robotics handed over several samples of the THeMIS robotic platform to Ukraine. Also, such robots are at the disposal of Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Great Britain and the USA. They were also used during the armed conflict in Mali, where units of the French army were involved. Such developments can significantly reduce the loss of ground forces personnel during combat operations in the most dangerous areas.

Since this unmanned vehicle is very interesting from a technical point of view, the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) of Russia is ready to award 1 million rubles to each military or law enforcement officer, or a group of them, if they can capture THeMIS in a relatively good condition and transfer it to further study by experts.

Comments

[WILL]

The Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) of Russia is ready to award 1 million rubles to each

Good practice during the Second World War, they also gave bonuses for destroyed and captured enemy equipment. Monetary motivation, among other things, works great!

[smart ass]

I hope the robot with a shovel and a rem set is included

[Rumata]

Quote: Clever man

I hope the robot with a shovel and a rem set is included

Also me wise guy. Vasya, don't be smart.

2 soldiers from the construction battalion replace the excavator.

[Mint Gingerbread]

And when will we already have robots for infantry units? Storm trenches, residential buildings, fortifications? The guys in the west do not slow down, they develop.
Imagine ten people, except for small arms, grenades, underbarrels, there is nothing and this iron fool simply does not shoot through. It will stand and mow until the bq is over.

[dmi.pris1]

"It will stand and mow." What stopped on the battlefield is already dead. Something like this .. In the article, by the way, about vehicles. well, yes. Banter about T14 ...

[Rumata]

Quote: Mint Gingerbread

robots for infantry units

We need not robots, but kamikaze UAVs.

[Fizik13]

Quote: Rumata

We need not robots, but kamikaze UAVs.

Immediately - YES!
But you need to think about the future!
The next turmoil will definitely not be like CBO, and CBO is very different from previous turmoils.

[Murmur 55]

Mint gingerbread , yeah, and RPG-7 is missing, and other types of RPGs of which we don’t have 5 types either, and there are no artillery and mortars, at first they also thought so about the first tanks of the 1st World War and then learned to resist them, the same here.

[stelltok]

will there be robots for infantry units?

There are options
Robot Nerekhta

There are more such

[Al manah]

It is necessary that there be MANY of them in the NWO zone, and not LITTLE at the landfills.

[Murmur 55]

Al manah , there was information that, in my opinion, 6 pieces were delivered to the B.D. zone, but I haven’t heard about the results of the application yet.

[alexmach]

They used it in Syria .. and they didn’t show themselves there, according to rumors.

[smart ass]

Let's just dress all the fighters at the front in uniform! Let's get everyone connected! We will produce enough drones! We will eliminate shell hunger! We will increase the constellation of satellites so that there is at least some kind of reconnaissance thread! Let's get to the robots! Business 5 minutes

[smart ass]

The ATGM will fly in and the scythe will become dull) which is cheaper than the ATGM or the robot?

[Mint Gingerbread]

You gentlemen are outdated in your visions.
I imagine the interaction in the form of a robot + drone + squad. The robot goes ahead of the squad, the squad moves behind, the drone operator coordinates from the air and highlights the targets, the operator on the ground. Of course, he can be knocked out from an RPG, and a person can generally be killed with an ordinary wog or a bullet. Is a person cheaper than a bullet or a grenade?
The presented non-rekhts and others like them, not armored platforms, with a huge number of protruding parts. I suspect that such a platform can be easily demolished with ordinary heavy fire from a machine gun, and disable most of the nodes. She most likely will not withstand even the fragments.
A normal assault platform should be armored all around and have a minimum number of protruding nodes. That is, keep at least 7.62 armor-piercing or up to 12.7, without breaking through from all sides. At the same time, the gun (gun mechanism), cameras and electronics must remain intact for as long as possible.
Various armored vehicles in the form of infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, tanks, vehicles with turrets, too large. They cannot move with the squad due to their size.