AUSA 2019: It’s a robot, an armored vehicle, a test platform, and it fairly bristles with sensors and antenna. It also carries a deployable robotic “marsupial” that can hop on and off to do things like probe for a roadway IED. Meet BAE Systems’ Robotic Technology Demonstrator (RTD).
While BAE is offering a medium-weight contender in the Army’s multi-pronged Robotic Combat Vehicles acquisition effort, RTD is not it, James Miller, BAE’s senior director of business development for combat vehicles told Breaking D during the annual Association of the U.S. Army show.
The RTD is a “rolling laboratory” for real-world testing of pretty much every subsystem, especially sensors, that an unmanned vehicle might need. The idea, Miller says, it to test tech that can migrate into both Army programs and BAE’s own products in future. For more details, watch the video!
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