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Canadian ground robot survives Atlantic drop, crawls back to shore


Rheinmetall’s Mission Master 2.0 UGV completed its first sea-to-shore run during NATO’s REPMUS exercise in Portugal.

The configuration aimed to support scouting, sensing, and communications during an amphibious approach, roles navies and marine units increasingly want from unmanned systems. Other nations are already fielding amphibious UGVs in combat zones, and multinational exercises are testing which roles make sense for a partnership between surface, aerial, and ground robots. “We were shortly notified of our mission, and within two minutes of receiving the coordinates of the target, we were set up on the beach to launch and strike it,” a Uvision USA representative said, according to reports..

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