General Dynamics Land Systems' Tracked Robot 10-ton (TRX) delivers modular capability to maneuver formations through rapidly reconfigurable mission payloads.
The breacher concept is interesting to me, as I had never thought of a combat engineering application for unmanned platforms previously. But now that it's been presented to me it makes absolute sense. I wonder if a platform like this would ever end up equipped with an M58 MICLIC armament for mine clearing. It makes perfect sense in my head.
Get these point defense/ shorad versions out to our bases asap! The Army is so painfully slow - we need protection against drones now not 10 years from now....Ironically the US invented combat drones and yet somehow we did not see all this coming or prepare.
I don't agree with complete autonomy with zero direct, human override. I think one person should be either onboard in an armored cockpit or in direct, wired communication with these combat systems. Otherwise, they look fine. ☮
They're not autonomous. Not sure where you read that. They're remote controlled with MINOR autopiloting features. And the SHORAD / Switchblade drone launchers require a man-in-the-loop to fire
Need more protection for the drone bay otherwise it’s an easy target for a two for one, or to disable that UAV, leading to reduction of operational readiness.
You know, I wish American creativity in the defense industry comes back. cool concept. im guessing a slow fire rate cannon? also stinger pods from the mid 1960's? i mean get real. we have a layered air defense system. patriot. aegis thaad and 2 others. costing millions for each missile. How about we get some modern things here folks. we are not fighting dirt farmers anymore. this thing should have a AESA radar constantly and low band search radar coupled with the aim120D'd or develope something else. but we have NASAMS use the radar from it or a smaller version. slap 4 Aim120's maybe a aim9x too?. Because a stinger missle not intercepting targets more then 5km away. and this would be another layer of air defense to our already capable AD network. The cost... money.
