Land operations Electric potential
Offering the capacity for signifi cant advances in stealth capabilities – with reduced thermal and noise signatures as well as enhanced mobility over challenging terrain – tactical and combat vehicle
electrifi cation could result in a number of advantages. Tallha Abdulrazaq talks to Dr Sarah Ashbridge, research fellow in military science at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), about the novel capability opportunities that transitioning to fully electrifi ed vehicles could provide.
and sweeping all before them. With AI in war having entered the mainstream consciousness decades ago through films like The Terminator that showcased what futurists thought drones and other unmanned vehicles might look and operate like, we are now increasingly in a world where glimmers of that future are now in the present. Of course, we are still a long way away from totally autonomous machines roaming the theatres of war and conducting a business that was
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e have all seen the movies – highly sophisticated robots rumble across battlefields, deploying advanced weapons
once exclusively the domain of humans. In the meantime, there are significant plans being put into place by advanced Western powers, including the UK, to revolutionise the conduct of war through increasing digitisation. However, these plans will be through more iterative steps that are perhaps more of a logistical revolution than an operational one that will throw out all the current doctrinal rulebooks. Indeed, it may be that the most iterative step of all is the weaning off of the reliance on fossil fuels in favour of renewable energy, and in particular the electrification of tactical and combat vehicles.
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