Endgadget: DARPA is developing smarter, faster armored vehicles
The GXV-T will fight smarter than today's troop transports, not harder.
In response to ever-more dastardly IED technologies, America's personnel carriers have become lot more resilient over the past few decades. However the ability for armored transports like the MRAP to take a direct blast comes at the cost of their speed, maneuverability, fuel economy, development and construction costs. That's why DARPA has just awarded contracts to eight institutions for their help in developing a next-generation people mover that's lighter, faster, smarter and more nimble than today's trucks.
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Update #1: See the DARPA Autonomous Military Concept Vehicle That Could Replace the Humvee (Inverse)
Update #2: DARPA's Latest Concept Video Looks Like A Bad '90s Movie In An Awesome Way (Gizmodo)
WNU Editor: It looks like a dune buggy .... with bigger wheels.
I'm thinking that making "Run Away" the basic operating mode of this vehicle won't win many fights.
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