AI-Empowered Army Robotic Combat Vehicles Reshape Modern Warfare Tactics

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By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

The Army is making a specific effort to build AI into its new generation of Robotic Combat Vehicles to process data, organize incoming sensor information from otherwise disparate pools of information and distribute crucial targeting information across the force in real time. 

Army 10-ton Robotic Combat Vehicle

The Army is now moving forward quickly with its 10-ton Robotic Combat Vehicle – Medium, a platform development effort intended to leverage manned-unmanned teaming to reshape modern Combined Arms Maneuver.

AI enabled computer systems can bounce incoming sensor data off of an existing database to draw comparisons, solve problems and analyze a host of variables all in relation to one another for human decision makers to process. Advanced algorithms can sift through limitless volumes of data and find key moments or objects of great combat relevance in milliseconds, easing the cognitive burden and time constraints placed on human decision makers.

“We are looking at using unmanned vehicles to expand the network and expand the line-of-sight so we can push these robots out as far as possible so soldiers do not have to do that,” Maj. Gen. Ross Coffman, Director, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional Team, Army Futures Command, told reporters at the 2021 Association of the United States Army Annual Convention.

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