“Armor and the Arctic don't necessarily match,” Cogbill said. “They're heavy. They would fall off the roads. They tumble down the side of a mountain. So we have to be light, highly mobile. It’s a matter of [having] just over the snow mobility.”
During JPMRC 26-02, the “Arctic Angels” grapple with tough terrain, fragile tech and logistical shortfalls as the Army tries to sharpen its Arctic edge.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping adversarial cyber operations at machine speed, requiring defenders to increase operational tempo while imposing pain and cost.
The buy represents the vehicle’s “first expanse” into Asia, a BAE official told Breaking Defense.
The service has been conducting several R&D and procurement programs to prepare its vehicles to succeed in extreme weather conditions.
The contract runs through 2029 and is designed to give the Army a new vehicle to survive in Arctic conditions in a variety of mission sets.
BAE systems and Oshkosh Defense, with its partner ST Engineering, will now compete for the contract, with an award expected near the end of June.
It’s fuel cells, not batteries, that let Group 2 unmanned VTOLS fulfill many missions of larger Group 3s.