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A medium UGV market emerges as the US weighs up its options
The US Army is weighing several approaches to medium uncrewed ground vehicles, including purpose-built logistics carriers and autonomous conversions of existing military vehicles such as AM General’s High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle. The Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport programme has already fielded its first increment, while the larger Increment II is intended to carry more equipment and supplies for dismounted formations. The effort is moving ahead alongside work on autonomy and commercial platforms, following the cancellation of the separate Robotic Combat Vehicle programme, which sought to put larger robotic systems into combat formations.