How To Tell If You Are A British General: Part Eight

 

 

Picture: Unknown photographer,Estonian Defence Forces photograph

 

You know that infantry operate on foot in confined spaces such as buildings,alleys,trenches,mountains and forests,or move around the battlefield in manned vehicles,but you think you could provide them with transformational "last mile" logistical support with an Unmanned Ground Vehicle,which at nearly seven feet wide cannot operate in confined spaces,or fit inside vehicles,and being capable of only twelve miles per hour cannot keep up with manned vehicles.

 

The Transformational Killer Robot

 

 

Picture: Unknown photographer,International Automated Systems photograph

 

As we pointed out over a decade ago,"armed forces have a habit of making the simple and cheap expensive and complicated",the four wheel drive variant of the Ox vehicle proposed herein,which shall be similar in size to some motorised quadcycles,shall be able to transport a driver and a medical attendant in addition to three recumbent casualties,seven if towing it's standard trailer (other potential payloads shall include ten infantrymen in patrol order or a,battalion level,Four Inch Mortar with it's crew and ammunition),at speeds of up to fifty miles per hour and is likely to cost as much as similar civilian vehicles,around fifteen thousand pounds sterling per unit.

 

 

Picture: Unknown photographer,unknown copyright

 

Two Milrem THeMIS (sic) and three HORIBA MIRA VIKING Unmanned Ground Vehicles were recently purchased by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory for five million pounds,for which several hundred Oxen and trailers could have been purchased,each THeMIS vehicle carries just two recumbent casualties at one quarter the speed of the Ox and shall take four times as long to get them to life saving medical assistance and require fourteen vehicles to match the casualty evacuation rate of just one Ox and trailer,thereby exposing British soldiers to the risk of a slow and painful death at the hands of their own,transformational,killer robots.

 

How To Tell If You Are A British General: Part Six

 

 

Picture: Unknown photographer,Milrem Robotics photograph

 

You think that robots are the solution,but you have yet to identify the problem.