Army testing SMET payloads at Ft. Benning this week

By Ashley Tressel / April 25, 2019 at 1:30 PM
COLUMBUS, GA -- The Army is holding a demonstration this week to test multiple add-on systems for the Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport unmanned vehicle. The test, called the Modular Mission Payload Assessment, is taking place at Ft. Benning, GA, during NDIA's Robotics Capabilities Conference here, where the product manager for applique and large unmanned ground systems told industry leaders what technologies the service was considering incorporating on the SMET. Lt. Col. Jonathan Bodenhammer said they "demonstrated a lot of lethality"...

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