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2024-02-17 07:35 UTC

‘Amongst them is BAE Systems, which is working with its subsidiary Malloy Aeronautics, on the electric T-650 heavy-lift unmanned aerial system. The quadcopter has a maximum payload of 300kg (661 lbs) and was most recently shown in a CASEVAC configuration at the World Defense News 2024… ‘We’re designing a pod that offers more than logistical movement of a casualty, which factors in patient protection and care during transit. ‘During the International Maritime Exercise, held in February 2023 in the Middle East, the MARTAC T38 Devil Ray surface drone was used to move a medical mannequin from a U.S. ship to shore during a medical evacuation scenario’. https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/2024/02/15/unmanned-systems-seen-as-future-of-battlefield-casualty-evacuation/

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@ravirockks@infosec.exchange 2024-04-07 04:44

'Driving on eight screeching wheels and carrying enough firepower on their truck beds to fill a small arms depot, a handful of U.S. Army robots stormed through the battlefield of the fictional city of Ujen. 'The robots shot up houses where the opposition force hid. Drones that had been loitering over the battlefield for hours hovered above McCurdy and his team and dropped “bombs”—foam footballs, in this case—right on top of them, a perfectly placed artillery shot. Robot dogs, with sensors for heads, searched houses to make sure they were clear. '... didn’t face live bullets. The robots don’t have peripheral vision; they can’t look left or look right like a human soldier can by simply turning their head. And the Army’s outdated network can’t always keep hundreds of drones aloft at the same time, or even tell U.S. troops which of the unpiloted aircraft are friend or foe. '... recently spotted an otherwise undetectable Apache helicopter weaving through their air defenses when they clocked the pilot’s iPhone doing 120 miles per hour across the desert. 'The next target for belt-tightening is the ponderous Distributed Common Ground System, the Army’s most widely used intelligence sharing platform ... 'Instead, troops want to be running their missions from tablets and iPhones. 'The faulty line charge was one of the few things that went visibly wrong during the exercise. In another instance, Army officials jammed themselves, and a swarm of drones dropped out of the sky'. https://archive.md/Ty7Dn

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