Remote Munitions Deployment from an Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Abstract

High-risk missions often entail ground forces being required to manually emplace and deploy obstacle breaching munitions to generate a footpath through antipersonnel obstacles. A safer method for obstacle breaching is highly desired. Implementation of UGVs with live munitions has been demonstrated to mitigate risk by generating an increased stand-off distance while operating the system from a concealed position. This paper presents the research, development, and testing results of the integration of live munitions with UGV platforms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA548400

Entities

People

  • Charles Dean
  • James P. Mason
  • Jeremy Gray
  • Patrick R Griffin

Organizations

  • United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Information Operations
  • Munitions
  • Platforms
  • Release
  • Release Mechanisms
  • Shipping
  • Shipping Containers
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy