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Army mulls introducing robot platoon into armored brigades
The platoons would be able to use a variety of drones, and swap out components as needed for missions.
A proposal to stand up the new type of platoon has been sent to the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, for eventual inclusion in an update to the service’s force design, said Brig. And both sides in the last year have also begun to use ground robots for missions ranging from casualty evacuation to ferrying in supplies to areas under attack. For example, vehicles that travel faster than 25 miles per hour cannot beam back visuals fast enough for soldiers to react in real time, he said, because of network and spectrum constraints.
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