In the 2001 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress set an objective of increasing the number of remote-controlled and unmanned systems in service with the US Army. The goal was that by 2015 a third of operational ground combat vehicles would be unmanned. However, this goal was not met. Scott Alexander reports
Russian company Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) is developing two unmanned variants of the T-72B3 main battle tank (MBT), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on its website on 12 August.
Rheinmetall presented the new Mission Master-Protection unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) armed with the Warmate loitering munition system at the International Defence Industry Exhibition MSPO being held in Kielce, Poland, on 3–6 September 2019, the German company announced in a press release on 3 September.