British Army puts unmanned vehicles of the future to the test

The British Army's Armoured Trials and Development Unit (ATDU) is paving the way for crewless vehicles to play their role on the battlefield.

The Bovington unit has been testing heavy unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) with the aim of exploring how useful they could be in the future theatre of war.

Lieutenant Colonel James de St John-Pryce, Commanding Officer of ATDU, said: "We're now looking at big platforms that can carry between one and up to four tonnes, so that we're starting to see how they could potentially fight alongside our armoured vehicles, currently in service in the British Army."

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The unmanned land vehicles will be tested over two weeks in terms of their speed, how easily they can cross difficult terrain and how good their communication systems are, as shown in the video above.