Thursday, September 3, 2009

Is This The Direction For Unmanned Vehicles In The Military?

[credit: G-NIUS]

IDF Pursues New UGV -- Ares Blog/Aviation Week

Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries have disclosed a contract from the Israeli government to jointly develop a new unmanned ground vehicle.

Development of the "Nahshon" will be undertaken by the ingeniously named G-NIUS UGV joint venture involving Israel’s two main defense contractors. The initial work on Nahshon is to be completed by 2011. The contractors are performing the development activity under leadership of the Israeli army and defense ministry’s MAFAT weapons and technology development administration.

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My Comment: That is one nifty looking unmanned vehicle.

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