VIDEO: MUTT War Robots Get Tested with Army’s Pacific Command

By Tactical-Life

Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning visited the Pacific Manned-Unmanned Initiative training site Tuesday, July 26, as part of his trip to U.S. Pacific Command.

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During the training initiative, which lasted more than two weeks, Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division tested and operated new robotic prototypes designed to allow them to do everything from gaining a bird’s eye view of the battlefield to moving assets by remote.

“There’s two things to dealing with emerging threats,” Secretary Fanning said. “(The first) is getting the right technology, acquiring it, building it, procuring it, but the second is actually getting it into the field, getting it into the hands of Soldiers.”

Soldiers operated unmanned aerial vehicles such as the Net Warrior Future Initiative, a small unit mission command system with ground and air asset control, and used unmanned ground vehicles like the Multipurpose Unmanned Tactical Transport (MUTT) vehicle to execute training scenarios.

Tollie Strode Jr., senior project officer at Maneuver Center of Excellence Maneuver Battle Lab, Fort Benning, Georgia, explained the overall importance of employing these innovative capabilities in the field. He said the initiative, called PACMAN-I, is a step in a process that started in 2014 …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life