Unmanned vehicles leave boot camp to join the regular forces

摘要

Unmanned vehicles are becoming plentiful on-and over-the modern battlefield, yet these automated systems until recently have been seen largely as military curiosities, not standard equipment. That's all about to change.rnIn the future, we'll look back at this year, 2009, as the time when unmanned vehicles truly graduated from boot camp, and started joining the ranks in the regular forces-becoming as common in the military arsenal as the infantry rifle, the Humvee utility vehicle, and the combat radio. In fact, we may see the first glimpses of a new military era when unmanned vehicles represent the norm on the battlefield, not the exception, and perhaps when manned vehicles will see use only in specialized missions.