In 2021, the U.S. Army conducted Project Convergence (PC-21), yet another step towards driverless robot (Leader-Follower) supply trucks. U.S. Army Futures Command video report from November 2021:
U.S. Army video report, 04MAR2020, one year Leader-Follower robot truck experiment begins at Fort Polk, Louisiana:
“The technology demonstrated today will be incorporated in the Army’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle as the Secretary of the Army recently stated that ‘autonomy is paramount and certainly critical’ to its development.”-Colonel Jered P. Helwig, U.S. Army
Autonomous Leader-Follower HEMTT navigate a roadway on Camp Grayling, Michigan, 28AUG2019. U.S. Army photo by Jerome Aliotta.
The Army M-O-S 88M will soon be needing less human capital as new robot HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) take to the road as part of a new ‘command’. The ‘Autonomous Leader Follower’ trucks have automated lane-keeping, adaptive cruise control, driver warning systems(? but no driver).
Official U.S. Army video report, 09APR2019, note in the report that it is admitted that developing robot trucks is causing many engineers to “get burnt out”:
16 experimental vehicles, each fitted with robotic ‘appliqué’ kits developed by engineers at the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) in Michigan, were dedicated to human drivers killed in the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. The ceremony, and testing of the robot HEMTT, took place in New Mexico at the beginning of April 2019.
Video from 25OCT2018, U.S. Army driverless tractor-trailers speeding down Michigan highways:
U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) was created in 2018, just for the new driverless supply truck operations.
In February 2016, various trucks were equipped with roof mounted sensors, to turn them into robots, on Fort Bliss, Texas. The U.S. Army was hoping to robot supply trucks in operation by Summer 2019. U.S. Army photo, 01FEB2016.
The robot truck operations are being tested in conjunction with the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. (For the latest British empire shenanigans proving that U.S. taxpayers are the Tools of The Commonwealth see WHY IS A leader OF A BRITISH EMPIRE MEMBER NATION INSPECTING A U.S. MILITARY BASE IN COLORADO?)
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